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Now That Possibly Drunk Rutgers Economist Susan Feinberg Is Sobered Up, She Has No Comment

This is the Susan Feinberg who probably was drunk — you hope she was drunk otherwise the words we’d have to use aren’t fit for a family site — when she decided to cause a scene at Bistro Bis in Washington, D.C.

Feinberg, who we can also presume gets nuts when drinking or just can’t handle alcohol, stormed over to Paul Ryan and attacked him for using his own money to drink an expensive glass of wine while daring to want the government to spend less of his, Susan Feinberg’s, and your money.

In any event, after she’d had a chance to sober up and think soberly about the scene she caused, Byron York of the Washington Examiner tried to get her to comment on the cut off point for what wines can and cannot be purchased without looking like Marie Antoinette.

Feinberg’s bottle of wine was $80.00, after all. So Byron just wanted to know what the cut off point was between $80.00 and $300.00, the price of Paul Ryan’s bottle.

Susan Feinberg now has no comment.

Oh, the funniest thing to know about Feinberg is she teaches something called “Love & Money.” That she would attack Paul Ryan for spending his own money suggests Ms. Feinberg doesn’t have much of a love for anybody’s money except her own and Uncle Sam’s.

But it’s okay. From her personal website we learn she raised over $4000.00 for AIDS!!!! Hell, we here at RedState raised more than ten times that much to wrest Congress out of the hands of Ms. Feinberg’s friends.

But doesn’t that absolve her of all her antics. She raised money for AIDS. Don’t give that woman a broomstick, give Susan Feinberg wings!

COMMENTS

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    How much HIV has she created or saved?

  • gawken

    What’s not clear from Erick’s comments, but IS clearly stated in the article, is that Ryan didn’t order the wine…one of his dinner companions, a wealthy hedge fund manager did. Ryan drank ONE glass, but felt compelled to pay for the entire bottle, no doubt to avoid accusations of ethical impropriety.

    Unless one is a real wine enthusiast, and possessed of deep pockets, one would never order such an expensive bottle. It’s impossible for the average person, let alone some so-called experts, to tell the deifference between a $10 bottle and a $100 botle..

  • blooch

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyzo7XouVB4

  • msctex

    . . .ANYONE putting ANY of their own money into the Economy could possibly be a bad thing? Or explain to her that the busboys, waiters, hosts and owners, as well as the people who supply the food to the restaurant and even those who supply the suppliers, ALL depend upon Paul Ryan’s wine — as well as whatever doubtless lesser choice Ms. Feinberg made that night — along with however other many diners were as well present and spending their money without being accosted by a tipsy professional harridan, to keep the restaurant open? Or simply make her realize that there is precisely one way Income Redistribution works, and that is when it is voluntary and within a Free Market system?

    And the answer is, of course, “No.” Because there is no rational response when any issue based on Denial of Reality is brought to light. Just dumb, dumb silence. Or, “No comment.”

  • http://www.tooncesthecat.wordpress.com tooncesthecat

    What I’m upset about is that both Ryan and Feinberg were drinking FRENCH wine when we have 9.2% unemployment in America. Bistro Bis has a considerable selection of very nice American wines in a wide range of prices from $39 to $300 per bottle. At least Ryan didn’t order the French wine and only had one glass. Feinberg, on the other hand, has no excuse–as an economist she knows that buying foreign-made products costs American workers their jobs.

  • Duke

    Paul Ryan makes a six-figure income, and has most of his personal expenses (business related) paid by you and me. At that level of income, and with a lot of expenses covered for him, he can certainly afford to buy a $350 bottle of wine if he wants. To believe otherwise, as Susan does, is to accept the preposition that all of our money belongs first to the government, and thereafter to those of us who have actually earned it. Under that assumption the government and its minions like Susan get to make the call on how we spend money.

    I earn (that’s “earn,” not “make”) probably half of what Cong. Ryan does, and I happen to like to smoke $30 cigars. It’s up to me to decide where I dispose of my earinings. If Susan doesn’t like it, I have a place I can stick one of those cigars for her!

  • billyd

    How can that be? Glad you asked….
    The one part of this story that goes overlooked is the wait staff in this restaurant. Most wait staff are struggling through their finances, and work incredibly hard for the money they do receive. I know… I worked on tips on my way to an Economics degree from Rutgers.
    Here’s the thing…. (An economics professor should know this)
    A 20% tip on a $300 bottle of win is $60! A 20% tip on a bottle of two buck chuck (I think it’s now three buck chuck at Trader Joes) is 40 cents!!!! Now, obviously an economics professor from Rutgers knows the basics of percentages and multiplication, so for her to be upset that Mr. Ryan spent that much money on a bottle of wine shows that she has no concern for the tip income that bottle had on Mr. Ryan’s partys waiter.

    So the only logical conclusion is…
    Susan Feinberg hates the working poor!

  • Doc Holliday

    could not tell the difference between a $30 bottle and a $100 bottle, but I can tell the difference between a $10 fizzy and Dom Perignon (some go for as low as $100, or used to).

    And like I mentioned before, the restaurant doubles the price. I looked up Ryan’s wine and you can get it for $150.

  • Doc Holliday

    the point being he was spreading the money around, to DC, the waiter, the busboys, illegals, etc.

  • mirac777

    In layman’s terms that means she is a leftist who has never worked an honest day in her pathetic “Senior Fellow” life. She isn’t held accountable for nothing, simply because I have no fake degree in economics, and yet I can still tell you that the world economy is down, the Liberal Socialist fake Democrats have racked up trillions of dollars of debt that is keeping the U S economy from recovering, and the U S dollar doesn’t buy half of what it did 5 years ago, thanks to the Fed printing trillions of Obama bucks.It does not take a Senior fellow/fake world economist to know those facts.

    Its called common sense, and pieces of trash that masquerade as “global economists”, especially when cross-bred with Leftist neanderthals like this beady-eyed ghost always fall way short in the common sense, real world knowledge department.You have to be at the bottom of the moron list to be an Obama supporter and still call yourself an economist at the same time today. This kind of nonsensical disrespect in public is going to meet head on with the “enough is enough” mentality one day soon, and I sure hope I,m there to see it !

  • Ann_W

    They would have been throwing cash out car windows if they could have counted it, during that wasteful process.

  • http://www.teapartiers.blogspot.com brucemajors

    http://teapartiers.blogspot.com/2011/07/make-that-white-wine-please-they-dont.html

  • rick57

    The point is it’s nobodies business!!!

  • gunslingr45

    is SO fitting

    It sucks to be a liberal when you run out of OPM (other people’s money.)

  • macperr

    If it had been Democratic Susan Feinberg someone reported spending $80.00 for a bottle of wine, she would probably say {Up Yours}. It’s none of your business.

  • tommiller

    Check out her rating as a teacher by her students:

    http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=697660

  • tommiller

    Check out her rating as a teacher by her students:

    http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=697660

  • msctex

    I’ve never been sure. It doesn’t seem to be something they brag about.

    Can’t imagine why.

  • lizaz

    what Paul Ryan or anyone else spends their own money on……just another liberal moron and there are plenty of them out there. She needs to look in a mirror…….probably better to ignore her and her ilk…..

  • Doc Holliday

    and don’t call me Kowalski :)

  • Common_Cents

    What are ‘elected elites’ doing drinking on taxpayer funded flights anyway?

  • williamjameson

    wine paid for with tax dollars.

    Why didn’t Feinberg complain about President Obama eating $100 Kobe steaks in 2009 and onward while Obama was claiming he inherited the worst economic collapse since the great depression?

    And Obama’s Wednesday night cocktail parties?

    Tax cheat General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt eats food at the whitehouse, wouldn’t a liberal call that the equivalent of Corporate Food Stamps? ROFL

    And where was she when Air Pelosi was flying the Speaker home on the tax payers dime?

  • Sheila_Frush

    Wonder what kind of tip Susan left for her $80 bottle of wine…

  • Sheila_Frush

    She could have cared less if it were Barney Frank…