Posted on 07/22/2013 10:14:16 AM PDT by Nachum
Yes- our lord and masters deserve the very best.
An oil portrait style image can be made in Photoshop from Leon’s driver’s license photo is less than a second.
It’s time for this tradition to die. I can see a real painted portrait for the president and future presidents. Anyone else we just can’t afford it and we don’t need to use 200-year old technology when better and cheaper alternatives exit.
Yes, we have had photography since 1820! Political appointees are not earls or princes. This country needs to quit acting like they are.
This $31k could have paid for July 4th fireworks at a military base that was cut for the “sequester”.
Let’s get a bill passed- no more portraits at taxpayer expense. Complaining here is useless. Who shall we get as a sponsor for the bill?
The more I think about it the more I like it.
“It’s time for this tradition to die. “
It will take a congressional bill to stop it, I think, and that does not mean that a pol won’t use $$ stolen in some other way to get his mug immortalized. But a bill that goes through Congress and is signed by Prexy will at least stop the direct use of stolen tax dollars.
WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!
Like in the USSR or Commie China, every household, business, office etc HAD to have a picture of the Mao or Stalin or they’d get hauled off to the camps/gulags/or executed!
Must be the size of the nose
Obviously they will be using real gold for the Comrade Panetta HERO badge on his lapel.
Oh...that is a good one!
I hope Jon McNaughton gets the bid to do this work :)
I, for one am happy to contribute my 20 percent pay cut for such a noble cause.
TC
I’ll paint it for half that. :-)
Think it would have cost more had it not been for the sequestration?
ROTFL!!!
This is TOO funny! I needed a good laugh today!!!!!!!!!
“Oil!?!?!?, what kinda cheap gift is oil!?!” -Leroy Herdman
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