Why did you feel the need to refer to Feinberg as being “drunk” three separate times in this post when that is an assumption not in evidence? Ryan described her as “possibly drunk” and she described herself as “not drunk”. So why are you jumping to conclusions?

Oh, because you’re taking sides. And, sure, you’re allowed to take sides. But you’re not allowed to invent your own reality. Your post didn’t benefit from the multiple accusations of her inebriation, so you really didn’t need to include that dubious assertion.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/thom-hartmann-talks-susan-feinberg-who-caught-paul-ryan-act

But then, imagining that proponents of some belief one thinks to be wrong must be addled or insane or “emotional” is another common human habit.

U obviously dont know me very well at all. At least put some effort into it. Sheesh. Maybe u can support Paul Ryan by shopping at his next job… Paul Ryans Used Cars. ;-)

We could probably apply that to u as well, now couldnt we? Did anyone tell Radley not to post or defend him? No, they didnt. People should ride that little ineffectual nothing all day every day. Im sorry that opinion is such a problem for u. Actually, not really.

And for those of you who are wondering about what makes a bottle of wine worth $350, I have the following observation from my personal experience. My most expensive personal purchase of a bottle of wine is $220, although my usual purchase runs under $10 per bottle. What makes a $220 bottle of wine cost 10 times a $22 bottle of wine? It is NOT 10 times better. It comes from a winery with a consistently good product from year to year. They use the most expensive form of harvesting, where each individual grape is picked at the peak of ripeness. But most importantly, what makes it that expensive is that it is RARE, and is currently in fashion (or “trendy”). There are plenty of small, family run wineries that are both consistent, and use the best quality practices, but that aren’t either fashionable enough, or rare enough to command such prices (and the appearance of rarity is something that a winery can artificially increase). Look at MI wines for lots of examples of this. Many excellent wineries (117 last I knew), a lot of really good wine, still mostly unknown, and so still reasonably priced. So don’t lament that you can’t afford a $350 bottle of Pinot Noir. Go out and buy a $35 bottle (from a store, rather than a restaurant) and you’ll be 99% there. Trust me, you won’t miss, or probably even notice, the missing 1%.

They really fear Ryan to try this hard to smear him.

Should read…

Not to say that the orgy wasn’t bipartisan with Bush and McCain AND OBAMA pushing the original TARP

Hmmm.

Didn’t Obama’s mouthpiece complain about the Republicans leaving DC to go back to their constituencies as scheduled because they weren’t working on raising the debt ceiling?

I’m a bit amused by Obama’s latecoming insistence on fiscal rectitude given his and the democrats’ spending orgy in the last 2 years. Not to say that the orgy wasn’t bipartisan with Bush and McCain pushing the original TARP. I just find it tiresome that Obama will attack them for lacking fiscal rectitude at the same time he attacks them for attempting to cut entitlements. Talk about having cake and eating it too.

(This is not to say that the current Republicans are actually being fiscally responsible. C’mon. 2 Trillion in “cuts” of “projected spending” over ten years? That means at least 4 years before we offset the first stimulus. Not to mention that CATO has shown that projected spending will still rise by 1.8 Trillion.)

(Paraphrased from http://www.searcys.co.uk/gherkin-club/membership-benefits/ )

“few, if any, even literal “middle class”, can represent the vast majority of us, the unwashed masses as it were.”

Stop voting for them then.

“Moreover, since the unwashed masses are unlikely to be invited to their tables, much less their offices, ”

One doesn’t need an invitation to visit the office of their representatives. One just needs to get off their ass.

“So whether Ryan is particularly “egregious” I don’t know – but I do know the whole thing just stinks.”

Why? Because someone enjoyed a bottle of wine you can’t afford? Poor, poor Carl.

As one who hates partisan nonsense I was predisposed to like this article, Radley, but you surpassed yourself; I literally LOLed. Excellent!

Moreover, since the unwashed masses are unlikely to be invited to their tables, much less their offices, it’s hard to believe they don’t live in an echo chamber of viewpoints that reflect a very different picture than the reality most of us live in. Whether they can transcend that is another question, but I would not bet on it.

This is regardless of political persuasion.

So whether Ryan is particularly “egregious” I don’t know – but I do know the whole thing just stinks.