The wing-dings are already in full panic mode: Susan Feinberg, an associate professor of management and global business at Rutgers University, caused a stir in the left-wing blogosphere over the weekend with her account of witnessing House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan drinking a glass of $350-a-bottle wine at an upscale restaurant near the Capitol. (Feinberg, who was at the restaurant, Bistro Bis, with her husband to celebrate her birthday, knew the wine was pricey because she could make out the name on the label and checked it on the wine list.) Feinberg confronted Ryan, accusing him of hypocrisy for drinking an expensive wine while advocating reduced spending for Medicare and Medicaid. But she didn't stop there. Feinberg also suggested Ryan might be guilty of ethics violations, secretly snapped a photo of him and two dinner companions, and then took the "story" to Talking Points Memo, the lefty site which ran a high-profile piece suggesting Ryan might be guilty of some sort of wrongdoing.
What kind of idiot pitches a fit at a dining spot like that? Obviously, a drunk, paranoid, Leftist idiot. Really, if you saw Harry Reid at a restaurant, you wouldn't likely jump in his face, as this dimwit did.
Feinberg left the restaurant after management intervened.
And naturally, as it turned out, the two folks Ryan was dining with had ordered the wine. So the idiot suggested he'd violated House ethic rules by accepting an expensive meal from lobbyists - only as it turned out, the pair were economists, not lobbyists, and worse yet, Ryan paid for his own meal. He even kicked in to cover the cost of one of the bottles of wine that the Rutgers cow was so enraged about. Ryan's so clean that he squeaks when he walks.
Surprisingly, when her own consumption of wine at $80 a bottle was mentioned, Feinberg had nothing to say. Presumably, the source of her "outrage" involved the fact that Ryan spent his own money, rather than relying upon government "assistance".
