Some lawmakers see waste hanging in hallowed halls

Richmond Times-Dispatch (&LA Times) ^ | September 15, 2013 | National & World News

[kevcol]

WASHINGTON The capital is full of portraits of government officials, sometimes more than one of the same person.
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an effort is underway to put an end to the practice of taxpayers footing the bill for the commissioned paintings. The measure is dubbed the Eliminating Government-funded Oil-painting, or EGO, Act.

Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., introduced it after reports that the Environmental Protection Agency spent $38,350 for former administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s portrait.

“Lisa Jackson can borrow my camera for free,” he suggested.

[kevcol]

Look what we (the 43% who actually pay taxes) bought!


also recently (8/28) "Lisa Jackson Hires Lawyer for Email Concealment Fiasco".

[Iron Munro]

Not to mention the human waste occupying elective office and bureaucratic jobs in those same hallowed halls.

[Beagle8U]

Nice painting of Lisa Jackson. Is that white cloud supposed to be fumes coming from her crotch area?

[scrabblehack]

It doesn’t look all that much like her. Maybe it’s Richard Windsor in drag.

[upchuck]

Environmental Protection Agency spent $38,350 for former administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s portrait.

Looking at Reply #1, I'd say they got ripped off.

Rep. Cassidy has a good idea.

If the employees of the EPA want to spring for Lisa's portrait, no prob. There are 17,000 of them. $2.25 each. Less than lunch.

[Hardraade]

How about nailing the officials on the walls?

[hal ogen]

I believe their booking pictures in prison should suffice. Rather wasting money on portraits of these felonious idiots, spend it on prosecuting them for their crimes against Free America, Free Americans and the Constitution.

[basil]

LOL! I wondered about that too.

Weird—very weird.......

[cripplecreek]

That’s quite a stream she has flowin there.

[niteowl77]

If a daguerrotype was good enough for Lewis Cass, it's good enough for any subsequent government employee... elected or appointed. Since most of the current administration are thieves or traitors - de facto if not de jure - a simple mug shot is not only sufficient, but serendipitous.

Mr. niteowl77

[FreedomPoster]

Just damn.

[ken in texas]

If the employees of the EPA want to spring for Lisa's portrait, no prob. There are 17,000 of them. $2.25 each. Less than lunch.

Good idea. Or, we probably have some convicted art forgers in US prisons that could crank one out for a few dollars worth of water colors. /s

[bgill]

Please tell me that portrait has been very sloppily photoshopped. Is that a rushing waterfall that jumped off the river or is it some funky odor coming off her?

I don’t understand the door either. Coming out of the closet? Makes no sense. The half of the door isn’t proportional to the bottom.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***WASHINGTON The capital is full of portraits of government officials, sometimes more than one of the same person.****

Not long ago it was found that modern portraits of DEMOCRATS were much bigger than those of Republicans. Often HUGE paintings taking up a full wall, of irrelevant Democrats.

[kevcol]

No, its the actual portrait: LINK.

Here's a nice one:

[V K Lee]

Given the fact that the wet one (the spouse of O Dark Won) is so wide, did this portrait cost us double. Two half portraits at a special price? What was the cost of this particular one ....exactly? And if more red is used than black, does this increase the cost and if so to what extent

[Moltke]

She certainly can pee uphill most impressively.

[Engedi]

odd looking— it looks like a stream of air is coming out of her crotch area LOL...

[The Cajun]

Don’t know what the artist was trying to do there, but maybe he/she should have stood back and looked at it a time or two.

[Safetgiver]

Did she have to ‘go’ that bad?