Roll over, George Washington, and tell Ben Franklin the news

"One of the most iconic and enduring images in American art,"  Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (detail, above), "will be "out of sight until 2011 as the artwork gets a touchup and an ornate new frame and its gallery undergoes a renovation." (Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Oil on canvas, 149 x 255," Metropolitan Museum of Art)

George Washington @Twitter*:

The best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interests.

Sissy Willis @ Twitter:

Try telling that to Rahm "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" Emanuel.

 

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously said, explaining "What I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do."

You remember Emanuel's quotatable quote about fooling all of the people some of the time (see caption, above). As we wrote in our recent appreciation of Roger L. Simon, "Part of my leftism was a sales pitch," re Rahm Emanuel's conscience-free self-revelation:

Translation: Take the money and run when people are preoccupied, and you can get away with spending it in ways they would never agree to were they paying attention.

Roll over, George Washington, and tell Ben Franklin the news.

*Re George Washington @ Twitter: Thanks to Preacher Gilbert, who just started following us on Twitter last night. He's also following foundingfather, a compilation of quotations by "the World's Apostle of Liberty." It looks like we're in good company.

Comments

[Gayle Miller]

I hate to say this but the right's reaction to the easily targeted Rahm Emanuel is an almost exact mirror of the left's reaction to Karl Rove. Each administration seems to have a lightning rod and Rahm is that for the Obama Administration. Of course, that big dumb doofus of a Press Secretary is doing a good job of making himself look like an idiot when he talks down to the MSM during press conferences and cops an attitude when legitimate inquiries about fly-bys in NYC are on the table!

[Stoutcat]

Brrrrrrgh! Would YOU buy a used car (or anything else) from that man?

[Gayle Miller]

Nope! I bought my [excellent] used car from a WOMAN! In Ohio.

[Elisson]

That painting brings back memories...

[Sissy Willis]

Elisson:

It's the one and only
university,
Situated and celebrated
in New Jersee.

You're Grrreat!