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Rep. Ryan Tastes The Grapes Of Wrath

Who in the hell pays $350 for a bottle of wine which basically you are just renting for maybe an hour then pissing down the urinal.

Why does someone bet that much on a single hand of blackjack and doesn't even get a buzz?
 
Wait! Don't tell me....you think there is something wrong with drinking an expensive wine. Am I right? Did I guess it?
Was this privately paid for? Or was this taxpayer dollars? If privately paid for then why does anyone think this is anyone's business but Ryan's?

Awesome story. "Susan Feinberg, an associate business professor at Rutgers, and all around busy-body..."
What a piece of trash she is. She gets a bit drunk, creates a scene and becomes a liberal sensation on a show no one even watches.

Liberals really are amazing, complicated, animals, aren't they?
There is nothing wrong about it, however he's advocating cutting the future benefits of seniors, so I don't think the episode puts him in a very good light with them. Whether or not you think he's a hypocrite, it will look that way to many voters. Count on it.
 
There is nothing wrong about it, however he's advocating cutting the future benefits of seniors, so I don't think the episode puts him in a very good light with them. Whether or not you think he's a hypocrite, it will look that way to many voters. Count on it.

So he wants to cut Medicare because the government's fiscal situation is bad, but he buys an expensive bottle of wine, because he may have a solid personal financial situation.

That makes him a hypocrite!?
How?
 
There is nothing wrong about it, however he's advocating cutting the future benefits of seniors, so I don't think the episode puts him in a very good light with them. Whether or not you think he's a hypocrite, it will look that way to many voters. Count on it.

No, it doesn't make him a hypocrite. He's not spending social security checks on expensive wine. He's not billing expensive wine to medicare. He's not spending taxpayer dollars on expensive wine.

Anyone who thinks this makes him a hypocrite is a partisan hack who wasn't going to look favorably on him in the first place.
 
There is nothing wrong about it, however he's advocating cutting the future benefits of seniors, so I don't think the episode puts him in a very good light with them. Whether or not you think he's a hypocrite, it will look that way to many voters. Count on it.

Two unrelated things are unrelated. Stop making liberals look foolish.
 
What it shows is how far removed politicians are from the rest of the country. This goes back to John Edwards' $400 haircut or Cindy McCain wearing a $300,000 outfit to the convention.

These people don't have a clue really how the rest of this country lives. And yes, all these costs were not paid by the taxpayers but most likely those friendly lobbyist.
 
What it shows is how far removed politicians are from the rest of the country. This goes back to John Edwards' $400 haircut or Cindy McCain wearing a $300,000 outfit to the convention.

These people don't have a clue really how the rest of this country lives. And yes, all these costs were not paid by the taxpayers but most likely those friendly lobbyist.

Lol. That's because the rest of the country isn't rich. They don't talk to those people.
 
There is nothing wrong about it, however he's advocating cutting the future benefits of seniors, so I don't think the episode puts him in a very good light with them. Whether or not you think he's a hypocrite, it will look that way to many voters. Count on it.

I think he's doing exactly what his voters wanted him to do.
 
I think he's doing exactly what his voters wanted him to do.

Expand the deficit? Ryan's plan does not reduce the deficit or debt. Virtually all of the savings from the cuts are eaten by tax cuts which then are assumed to bring in a ridiculous 50% return. If Ryan was serious about cutting the deficit and debt, he'd raise taxes slightly and put ALL of the savings towards deficit and debt reduction. Ryan's plan does not put us on the path to financial solvency.
 
Other people being an idiot is not an excuse to be an idiot.

I haven't researched anybody, but whose to say he wasn't a man of means before he took office?
 
You mean as silly as Michele Obama eating a burger or the Obama's going out to a romantic dinner in New York? Of course it is silly, but that is how low politics have gotten in the US... not to mention there is a difference... Sure Michele is leading the charge for healthy eating, and then she eats a burger.. so what.. the burger cost like a buck. Sure the Obama's are suppose to be the "leading light" of the nation, but as long as they use their own money for their romantic dinners and dont go around demanding that the American people cut food budgets and not going out and so on... the I have no problem with them going out and even spending 400 dollars on a bottle of wine!. The Obama's are not part of the party of supposed fiscal responsibility and leading the discussion on gutting government spending for the least well off while lowering taxes on the rich and corporations... Ryan is.... so yes he is a grade 1 hypocrite even if he paid for it himself. Fiscal responsibility starts with personal responsibility, and blowing a few weeks food allowance for a poor family on a bottle of wine is disgusting to say the least considering who is doing it. It reminds me of Marie Antoinette... "let them eat cake"...

Well, there is that. Ignore my last post.
 
Two unrelated things are unrelated. Stop making liberals look foolish.
Hmmm. I didn't say they were related, but I've seen enough political ads in my life to know this could be used against him. I can see the ads in my head. "Rep. Ryan wants to cut you Medicare, while he drinks $350 a bottle wine at posh DC restaurant."
 
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:shrug: I've spent a couple of hundred on a bottle of wine in a restaurant before.


pbrauer, what was your opinion of the Kennedy's? John Kerry? I'm pretty sure if I were to look up the list of millionaires who spend this kind of money on consumer goods and who are also Congressional Democrats who claim to be 'for the poor" etc. the list would be lengthy...
 
Rep. Ryan wants to cut the benefits of future seniors, but he caught helping to consume not one but two bottles of $350 Jayer-Gilles 2004 Echezeaux Grand Cru wine.




Rep. Ryan Tastes The Grapes Of Wrath | TPMDC

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Like ive been saying the teaparty is all about the 30-45 greedy B*****Ds and most of the teaparty snotnoses are all rich and its all about them....and more and more traditional long term republicans I talk too, soundly realize that now
 
:shrug: I've spent a couple of hundred on a bottle of wine in a restaurant before.


pbrauer, what was your opinion of the Kennedy's? John Kerry? I'm pretty sure if I were to look up the list of millionaires who spend this kind of money on consumer goods and who are also Congressional Democrats who claim to be 'for the poor" etc. the list would be lengthy...

Thats why your a teaparty cheerleader :) that said it all lol
 
This seems like a silly thing to bitch about Rep Ryan over. Especially if he paid for it himself.

No its not...hes a guy that wants to rip the genitals out of the middle working class and give HUGE tax cuts to HIMSELF...this is quite appropriate to show how full of it this clown and the teaparty clowns like him are
 
It's class warfare masturbation. Of course, Ryan is on the "wrong" side, so his enjoying good things in life is "hypocritical", if Ryan were a Democrat this thread would never have been posted.

Yes it is class warfare this piece of crap ryan has been spear heading the war against the middle working class....talk about sticking foot in mouth :)
 
Rep. Ryan wants to cut the benefits of future seniors, but he caught helping to consume not one but two bottles of $350 Jayer-Gilles 2004 Echezeaux Grand Cru wine.



Rep. Ryan Tastes The Grapes Of Wrath | TPMDC

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Why are they complaining about what he spent on a bottle of wine when it's his income that enables such spending?

What kind of ridiculously prudish people spy on what others are eating and drinking and sizes them up - takes pictures- and reports about it? Talk about being all up in other people's business. Ah - no - here it is:

"It was my birthday, and I'd had half a bottle of great wine with dinner," she wrote in an e-mail to TPM. "I wasn't drunk, but I was certainly emboldened to speak my mind."

What - she can get tipsy but he can't? If she was sober then maybe she wouldn't have looked like an idiot.
 
Thats why your a teaparty cheerleader :) that said it all lol

:lol: dude. i'm a Sergeant in the Marines. (E-5). Our payscales are somewhat publicly available.
 
There is nothing wrong about it, however he's advocating cutting the future benefits of seniors, so I don't think the episode puts him in a very good light with them. Whether or not you think he's a hypocrite, it will look that way to many voters. Count on it.
I see. The act of drinking a glass of expensive wine is okay. But don't do it while saving social security. Understood.
 
If Ryan was serious about cutting the deficit and debt, he'd raise taxes. . .
So there go. Again. For you every solution involves raising taxes.
For me the solution is to steadily, consistently roll back the size, scope and reach of government by repealing regulations to expand business activity. And for the the answer always includes widening the tax base so that everyone pays while flattening the tax rates so that no lone pays too much.
 
:shrug: I've spent a couple of hundred on a bottle of wine in a restaurant before.


pbrauer, what was your opinion of the Kennedy's? John Kerry? I'm pretty sure if I were to look up the list of millionaires who spend this kind of money on consumer goods and who are also Congressional Democrats who claim to be 'for the poor" etc. the list would be lengthy...
Both Kennedy and John Kerry were/are wealthy people, plus I don't think they wanted to take money from elderly low income people. But that's precisely what today's GOP wants to do. For all the rhetoric about income redistribution, the GOP is trying to strip the benefits of lower income people and giving it to the high income earners. Rep. Paul Ryan drinking $350 wine is a symbol of it.
 
Both Kennedy and John Kerry were/are wealthy people, plus I don't think they wanted to take money from elderly low income people. But that's precisely what today's GOP wants to do. For all the rhetoric about income redistribution, the GOP is trying to strip the benefits of lower income people and giving it to the high income earners. Rep. Paul Ryan drinking $350 wine is a symbol of it.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is a liberal progressive. You can hear his views on "ring of Fire" radio show every sat. He makes Obama sound like a RWer! Soo all that BS about class warfare & that liberals hate rich folks is just that BS! There are rch folks who actually have a conscious about social responsibilities.
 
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