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We’ve learned a few things-no finger prints this time!
(I’m terrible at this game)

Portrait Title: “Bad Dog, Very Bad Dog”
Caption under the portrait reads: “GW Bush Sh*tting on the White House Carpet.”

It’s hard to know if that vase of flowers over Bush’s head is real or a thought bubble.

This looks like a classic study in body-language analysis…notice how Lincoln discreetly turns AWAY from the Bush?

Lincoln thought balloon: “And I thought Buchanan was bad.”

Portrait of Lincoln saying: “This reminds me of a little joke…“

Currators remove debris while preparing for an exhibit titled “Honorable Presidents of the United States”

A Lincoln: First Republican President.
GW Bush: Last Republican President.

“If it didn’t take me so damn long to get these boots off, I’d throw one at him.”

Don’t you want to just throw your shoes at that portrait?

I think kmramki already won, but…
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Lincoln: Don’t turn around, pretend you don’t know he’s there…. he’s almost gone.

Can’t you take the real one with you?

“From the sublime to the ridiculous”

kmramki, first and last…funny. Reminds me of my first visit to the Capitol passing a Lincoln bust and thinking I would take a photo later. I never found that original bust again, but found that Lincoln sculptures were all over the place.
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KT that is a great foto. Lincoln seems to me to be wondering what to make of it all, and how the neighborhood is sure going downhill.

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Bobby Jindal might be sunk before he ever started.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/us/19louisiana.html?_r=2&hp

“Lacuna Inc (Eternal Sunshine…) at work”

Busy cleansing our mental palette, traumatized by the Bush years–and they’re not over! Like a bad, very bad mental climax. Aren’t the two blokes Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood?

And since I dished ST Coleridge in another post, here’s my Pope:

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”

“Eloisa to Abelard”

President Bush’s portrait was removed and shipped to the Cheney lair where it will be fondly hung above the fireplace and bearskin rug.

anti-climax! … I meant, yoda clucking foolish American expat, where’s my freakin’ sake cup

Sorry, can’t enter the salon, coat and tie required.

Do this come in wallet size?

and kmramki ftw!

Grateful nation thanks kindhearted art thieves.

SG– LA was one of only three states that produced GOP growth. Perhaps now they’ll figure out that it’s not party or personality but policy which the GOP doesn’t seem to excel at.

[...] Via Time (h/t Swampland): [...]

And stay out!

This goes right over here, in the bathroom.

Lincoln: “I won my war.”

Shakespeare, more accurately, Lincoln: “I didn’t start a useless and unnecessary war, but I won it when it was brought to me.”

Very true, fj. I was just going for conciseness.

Hey boss, where does the Cialis ad go?

Dee
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Its doubtful. You know conservatives, they will just say he didn’t cut taxes ENOUGH.
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Thats ok, just keep hitting it

“There is no Washington in that–no Jackson in that–no manhood or honor in that.”

-Abe Lincoln, 1861.

“There is no Washington in that–no Jackson in that–no manhood or honor in that.”

-Abe Lincoln to G.W. Bush, 2008

The Bush administration, when reached by reporters, refused to comment on an ongoing redecoration.

Georgie W. just stares in wonder at what might have been.

Lincoln: “I wonder if I should throw my shoes at him.”

Ladies and gentlemen, on the higher plane we have a great President who is revered and whose sculpture and name appears throughtout the world even now. Being wheeled below, well, we have a President. We will let history attach the adjective. And we are still hoping for a street name in Bagdhad.

Lincoln: “About four score and four years ago, Prescott Bush should have kept it in his pants.”

Come on Irv, this portrait goes in the basement next to Hoover and Buchanan.

Gruesome, isn’t it?

Here’s one painting that won’t increase in value after the artist dies.

Irv, do you think we can get any money for the frame?

Lincoln: You can fool some of the people some of the time…

At the request of Albania, the National Gallery is preparing to load the portrait of President Bush onto Air Force 1 to be shipped to the Albanian national gallery. They are desparate for heroes, and will take what they can get.

George, I once said, “With malice toward none, with charity for all, …let us strive on to finish the work we are in, …to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” You trampled on those words and values behind them. All I can do now is turn away in shame.

FJ, Georgia would have been a better choice, but I salute you for the creativity.

Irv, I thought the portrait of Dorian Grey was bad. Couldn’t he have at least worn a tie?

George, I don’t think Doris Kearns Goodwin is going to be writing a book about you anytime soon.

OK, OK, Mr. Lincoln, we are moving as fast as we can to get him out of your sight.

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KT
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I am wondering if you have any thoughts on the Governator vetoing the budget in California that would have reduced the budget by 18 million partly because it didn’t losses environmental standards? I thought he was supposed to be all “green” and stuff.

ooops forgot the link
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http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/1485567.html

George, we shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

sg, I can’t even keep up with the budget shennagans in my own state. I care about California? Not. Very, very OT on this blog.

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I was asking KT because of an earlier convo we had about the Governator and health care reform in CA

Lincoln to Bush: The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. It’s time for you to move on big guy!

sg, ok, I need to go to bed anyway. No loss. Nite.

the white house tour includes an art history lesson on lowbrow postmodernism and institutional critique.

Suzie: LOL

a late night addition…

Lincoln to Bush: “If that piece of sh!t is your idea of art, you better stick to T-ball.”

“The Thinker” and “The Stinker”

dunedweller just won the thread, but here’s my entry:
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“well they did say it was a sitting”

“If they are going to start burning we presidents as fuel to heat the white house, i wonder who is going first?”

“I’d rather see Jeff Davis…”

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Hmm,
One is deep in thought, the other is twiddling his thumbs.
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Which is which will be left as an exercise for the reader….

thought balloon over Lincoln “Can’t sit here”
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ala forrest gump

Bush: “Get me the hell out of here!!”

“One score and seven Presidents ago, the mission was accomplished.”

“A painting divisive cannot hang”

Maybe revise my second one: “A painting so divisive cannot hang.”

And thanks for giving the Portrait Gallery some love, Karen. It’s a fantastic museum and so underappreciated.

Lincoln is pondering saving the union; Bush is pondering breaking the union.

Lincoln: Must…Stop…Size 10 of Death…

Lincoln: Get out of my sight, chump.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

“We’ve got to take this one to dry. It was watercolorboarded.”

“Abraham, Fartin’ & John” (*)
(*) Only works if the obscured picture is one of the John Presidents and you are 13 years old.

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Give me that Sharpie.”

Coffee: Abraham, Martin (van Buren) and Gone!

Future history book caption: “In the early 2000s, the United States entered a period of decline as the influence of dynastic politics and anti-intellectualism rose.”

KT, the whole city is a museum. Only been once, but I love the place. I went in the winter and heard how lucky I was to not be there in the summer. No lines, no wait, no hassle. I even know that place accross from Ford’s Theater that you suggested for the Swamp meet during the inaugration. Wish I could be there, but I will watch on the teevee and be thinking of the Swampers.