I think you cut off the bottom of the painting. Shouldn’t we be able to see a barefoot Bush passing cards Abe?

Wow, almost as moving as “dogs playing poker”, but as though on black velvet in Tijuana instead…

“But honestly, I really did care about the plight of the Negro” Lincoln said, as the room erupted in laughter.

“In retrospect, I would be in favour of some modest gun controls…”

“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan – that’s socialism, you say?”

What, did they send Hoover to fetch more ice? Shouldn’t it be TR they misuse, seeing as how he was Unsound on Antitrust Issues?

Meanwhile, Nixon is peering into a strategically-placed mirror to note that George I is holding shite.

BTW, that picture is truly teh awesome. Hard to believe it really is sincere wingnut hagiography. Are you sure it’s not self-conscious deadpan post-modern hipster-ironic kitsch, or rather “kitsch”? A sort of Yankee Imperialist version of Komar and Melamid? Poe’s Law obviously applies more widely than I’d thought.

He made Ike look like Tor Johnson.

Notice how Lincoln is deliberately painted from the “John Wilkes Booth” perspective?

Almost as “awesome” in its sheer awfulness as this.

I guess George Grosz did the mens’ room scene. Can almost hear Joel Grey singing “Come To The Kaberet…” Reminds me of the basement scene in “The Night Porter,” but with no Charlotte Rampling. They think they’re doing fine without her. republiKKKan fun! Disquieting to think we’re that close to the end of their version of their ameriKKKa’s 400 Year Reich.

I like the jellybeans.

“So then I pardoned the son-of-a-bitch and told everyone it was for the good of the country!”

Hey this is just like Mad Libs.

“No, we reaqlly DID kick those eye-raqui asses”, exclaimed George W. Bush as the room erupted in laughter.

Number two in the series “…and the room erupted in laughter.” Collect them all!

Three if you include the one Dennis snuck in.

And where are Coolidge and Hoover? Surely such icons of GOPness ought not to be overlooked! Never did the nation see such standardbearers for letting business run the show.

Lincoln would totally fuck W’s shit up.

The Republican Presidents of yesteryear — only mostly dead.

:o)

I’m waiting for the one with Jesus, Falwell, Tony Perkins, Swaggart, Pope Alexander VI, etc., playing Monopoly.

I’m waiting for the one with Jesus, Falwell, Tony Perkins, Swaggart, Pope Alexander VI, etc., playing Monopoly Naked Twister™. FIFY.

Abe to Dubya: “What the fuck are you talking about George?? Jesus Christ, I got a bullet in my head and I make more sense than you!” To Ronnie:” Goddamnit Ron! Those are poker chips, not potato chips! Will ya stop showing me your fucking cards please!” “That’s it, guys! I’m sick of this shit; it’s worse than playing with a bunch of pre-schoolers (or Jeff Davis -same thing). I’m gonna go hang with the Kennedy brothers – now those are guys who know how to roll!”

AL: “I believe one or all of you are cheating. At least at cards…”

AL- “Mary Todd wanted to name our first born Trig, and I said, WTF?”

AL: “No, seriously, guys, I believe one day a black man WILL be President.” …And the room erupted in laughter.

Uh… What’s up with Dubya’s neck? Last time I saw a guy look like that he’d just tried to break down a door with his head. Seriously, did someone badly photoshop it onto some other body? Just creepy on at least four levels.

I don’t recognize Churchill in the picture. This is a serious oversight.

(I think the guy next to Reagan is supposed to be Ike and is too tall)

I’m sure Lincoln is somewhat relieved that this time the actor is in front of him.

George Bush just had Lincoln pull his finger. Seriously though, think of eternity spent with George W. Bush and Richard Nixon at some big Republican convention in the sky.

I’m with you, initially thought it was the latest Koons

btw, Lincoln is sharing the always hilarious Falwell meets Satan anecdote

Those are actually screams and grimaces on the faces of Ike, TR, and Lincoln. The horror of finding oneself in such company would elicit reactions of horror from even the greatest amongst us.

Cool. Lincoln can talk Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman with Reagan, Roosevelt can talk environmentalism with Bush Jr, and both Bush boys and Reagan can have a cheery little chat with Eisenhower about the military industrial complex.

Maybe Eisenhower and Ford shouldn’t discuss America First. That could get ugly.

I guess my favorite, though, is Roosevelt hanging out socially with the son and grandson of Prescott Bush. Guess there was no Taft available.

“So the press actually wrote that there were WMD in Iraq!”
“So I actually got a gigolo to ask me questions at my press conference!”
“So I had to dodge a muthafuckin’ shoe!”
“So I said to him, ‘Heck of a job, Brownie!’.”
“So I sat there and finished reading, My Pet Goat!”

Yup. W. himself could fill out a whole book of and the room erupted in laughter tears.

I think — and I hope I’m remembering a dream, but probably not — that I’ve seen an alternate version of this where Obama’s present too, but he’s serving them drinks.

There’s something about the symbolism. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it has to do with Republicans and visible hands. Maybe they’re all enjoying a little long-running practical joke about “voodoo economics.” Jeez, you could do a whole semester art appreciation course on this at Liberty U. or Oral Roberts.

How bad is it when Nixon beats out Coolidge, Harding, Taft, and Hoover.

AL: “So, Ron, what did you have?”

RR: “I don’t remember.”

RN: “I think you had a pair of 2s.”

To be fair, the artist also painted Dems:

http://www.andythomas.com/02linkpage.aspx

“He told her; ‘Why don’t you drop down on your knees and show me how much you want to be Vice-President?’and the stupid bitch did it only at first she thought he meant praying.”

They’re laughing because Dubya painted a penis and balls on Lincoln’s face when he was napping.

I hope he kept his day job.

LOL

That’s the worst likeness of the big dog ever.

Oddly, though, the self hating, hypocrtical run from the KKKloset to the mens’ room stall doesn’t loom at all in the second painting. Why is that, ya suppose?

Caption:
“And you never saw a nigger wiggle at the end of a rope like this before.”

As a life-long Democrat, I think that one should have represented characteristic party strategy by smoking guns all around the circular table. Otherwise, Truman in a Hawiian shirt and yucking it up with FDR? Jimmy Carter telling about lusting in his heart? LBJ trying to show his belly scar to Woodrow Wilson? Bill Clinton really laughing it up with the great humorist Andrew Jackson? I don’t think Kinkade did a whole lot of research.

Correction: Kinkade Thomas

Wait! Wait! Heaven is a casino where people smoke, drink and gamble?

Or maybe they’re in hell.

Guess there was no Taft available.

The artist couldn’t fit him in.

I like the Democratic one. Harry liked to wear his Hawaiian shirts while vacationing in Key West. I’m guessing LBJ just told a ribald joke (not a racial one or Clinton and Carter wouldn’t be laughing) and while everybody else is guffawing, Wilson just cracks a slightly suppressed smile.

Where is Cleveland? Well, if you had a pretty 22 year old wife back home waiting for you, would YOU want to play cards with the guys all night? No? me neither.

They’re playing with Nixon? For cash money? What a bunch of suckers.

Thanks, Tbogg. Now I know Cassius Marcellus Coolidge is the creator of furry fandom.

The playa on the far right of the painting:

Richard Nixon or Joe Biden?

God, that does look like a Thomas Kinkade abortion though…

This picture is such a fake: Nixon would totally not be letting TR get a look at his cards!

I don’t think Nixon would be smiling, either. And who/what IS he smiling at?

“Chumps Playing Poker”

Didn’t Nixon make his first “fortune” during WW the 2 playing poker while stationed in the Pacific?

Maybe “Honest Abe” knew a table full of bluffing suckers when he saw one.

(And I live in the home town of C.M. Coolidge, so I am required to be outraged by the unfair comparison. Also.)

Didn’t Nixon make his first “fortune” during WW the 2 playing poker while stationed in the Pacific?
Yes. That was before he found out that the real money was in politics.

Once again, the modern conservative movement proves itself hypocritical in the extreme.

They rail for years about homosexuals and pr0nography, then turn around and create artwork featuring nothing but dicks and assholes …

Shouldn’t Dubya be rubbing Ike’s head?

I think he wants to give Reagan a Merkel first.

W: “And get this, McCain chose some woman, the governor of Guam as his running mate!”

How bad is it when Nixon beats out Coolidge, Harding, Taft, and Hoover.

And where’s the love for Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley?

MarkD wins the thread.

I hope this doesn’t spoil what’s shaping up as a real nice party, but . . . this picture is entrepeneuralism, not hagiography. There is a similar picture of Democratic presidents, called “True Blues.” You can buy prints, jigsaw puzzles, etc., of either card game. The artist is Andy Thomas.

Can’t seem to attach a jpg, so I’ll suggest you google for “true blues” images.

See #34. Itz pandering to republiKKKan assholes – wtf do ya think buys both prints? They think that’s witty political commentary and that’s who he’s selling to.

Five of the eight would be kicked out of the Republican party including Nixon, whose domestic policies would be considered too liberal for the whacked out tea party that is the current GOP. Hell, I am including Pappy George in the remaining three and I am not even sure he wouldn’t be kicked out.

“One of these things is not like the other,
one of these things just isn’t the same,
now one of these things just doesn’t belong here,
now it’s time to play our game….”

Yes, I’m from that generation.

I’ve seen a few pics of Truman in a shirt like that. The look of Puritan disgust on Wilson’s face at whatever crude joke Johnson is undoubtedly telling is good. Clinton looks a little like Robert Mitchum and Old Hickory raided Liberace’s closet for that jacket.

I’m waiting for the Whig version. I’d totally buy a painting of William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore playing three-handed gin.

Five of the eight would be kicked out of the Republican party including Nixon, whose domestic policies would be considered too liberal for the whacked out tea party that is the current GOP.

Damn you Warren, you stole my comment. I was going to say at least two of them (Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt) wouldn’t be allowed into the GOP nowadays, but your estimate is probably closer.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/new-yorker/69

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Yeah – Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower are a bunch of far-left liberals, by today’s standards, and Bush Sr raised taxes, built coalitions, and ended wars. Completely un-Republican values. But even Reagan raised taxes and made arms concessions at the height of the Cold War.

Basically, today’s GOP has distilled itself down to a purified blend of Nixon’s lunatic paranoia, Reagan’s regressive libertarianism, and Bush Jr’s authoritarian religiosity.

“Party of Lincoln”, yeah right. Nice going, guys.

“…and then I said ‘the tax-cuts would increase government revenue.’ That never gets old!”

How come Ike’s wearing lipstick?

Is this one of those “shore does have a purty mouth” things?

Oh look, Bush senior and junior and Ronnie with their sleeves rolled up. How cliche.

This is just so…Soviet.

PS:

Where’s Harding? Hoover? Big Bill Taft? Andrew Johnson? Any one of those guys did less damage to this country than Dubya or the Blessed Ronnie.

I’m guessing LBJ just told a ribald joke

I see LBJ smiling and telling Wilson, “Get the fuck out of my chair.”

Lincoln would totally fuck W’s shit up.

TR would take a big stick to W’s ass.

dSmith @67,

that New Yorker cover is the realistic version.

What, no love on this thread for the missing U.S. Grant? Admittedly, a horrible president, but a pretty decent general.

And Nixon looks far too suave, and not like his actual smarmy self. And I doubt that Bush Sr. ever rolled up his sleeves once in his life, unless he had a servant do it for him.

Servants cost too much. That’s what congressional pages are for.

That’s what congressional pages are for.

Mark Foley (R-Predator) disagrees.

“And Nixon looks far too suave”

Yeah, where’s the stubble?

OT:

Palin goes to Hong Kong (via TPM):

“Hari Sevugan, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, said Tuesday the group knew little about Palin’s speech.”

“We’re curious as to what she’s willing to say in private but not in public,” Sevugan said. “Are there other countries that she can see from her window that she doesn’t want us to know about?”

I did not think it possible, but that painting makes Stalinist art look good.

TR would have taken a big stick to the asses of all the post-Eisenhower Republican Presidents.

Anyone remember Leroy Neiman?

Teddy Rosevelt was a black man?

PS – My favorite billboard on the I-10 near Palm Springs: Gerald “Our” Ford

Eh, if it goes to a cage match between these old f*&kers, I got a 20 on Andy Jackson* killing skinning and wearing the scalps of all those Republicans.
Oh, does Teddy count seeing as he ran as a 3rd party candidate? Maybe they just went with people we could recognize, though who had to think for a second to get Wilson? Just me then? Feh, screw you guys.

*and Andy is on the 20

Andrew Johnson?

Uh, Andy was a Democrat, added to the ticket to provide balance. (Poor Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, the VP candidate in 1860, was booted in 1864. Ah, how close poor Hamlin came to being something more than a really obscure answer in Trivial Pursuit.)