Where Was Susan Feinberg When Nancy Pelosi Spent $300,000 on Liquor?

Paul Ryan faces scrutiny for an expensive bottle of wine.

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan and his party were accosted by a Rutgers Professor at a swanky Capital Hill restaurant Wednesday night for their choice to order two $350 bottles of wine with their meal.

“Susan Feinberg, an associate business professor at Rutgers, was at Bistro Bis celebrating her birthday with her husband that night. When she saw the label on the bottle of Jayer-Gilles 2004 Echezeaux Grand Cru Ryan’s table had ordered, she quickly looked it up on the wine list and saw that it sold for an eye-popping $350, the most expensive wine in the house along with one other with the same pricetag.

Feinberg, an economist by training, was even more appalled when the table ordered a second bottle. She quickly did the math and figured out that the $700 in wine the trio consumed over the course of 90 minutes amounted to more than the entire weekly income of a couple making minimum wage.”

So Feinberg confronted Ryan.

“After ending their meal and paying the check, Feinberg decided to give Ryan a piece of her mind. She approached the table and asked Ryan ‘how he could live with himself’ sipping expensive wine while advocating for cuts to programs for seniors and the poor. Some verbal jousting between Feinberg and the other two men ensued. One of the two men said he had ordered the wine, was drinking it and paying for it. In hearing how much the wine cost, Ryan said only: ‘Is that how much it was?’

The clash became especially heated when Feinberg asked the men if they were lobbyists.
‘F—- her,’ one of them replied and stood up in a menacing way, according to Feinberg’s account. Feinberg said her husband then ‘puffed out his chest’ in response before the manager and a waiter came over and Feinberg decided she had said her piece and it was time to leave.”

It turns out Ryan paid for the wine on his own credit card.

The real question is, where was Susan Feinberg when Nancy Pelosi was spending $300,000 of our tax dollars to stock her airplane with liquor? Care to explain your newfound anger Susan? Could it because Ryan is a Republican?