Price No Object, Ryan Enjoys Two $350 Bottles of Wine, Calls woman who pointed it out "crazy."

The conservative elite sure know how to live, don't they.

The Atlantic: According to this astounding article (with pictures) at Talking Points Memo, Ryan -- the leader of the tighten-your-belt, fiscal-austerity crowd -- is in the habit of drinking $350-a-bottle wine, specifically Jayer-Gilles 2004 Echezeaux Grand Cru. In fact, Ryan enjoyed two bottles of this fancy Pinor Noir while dining the other night with a pair of conservative economists at Bistro Bis, the swanky Capitol Hill restaurant favored by lobbyists and other expense-account barons.
 Ryan had the misfortune of sitting at the table next to Susan Feinberg, a Rutgers business professor, who didn't share his nonchalance about calling for draconian budget cuts for the poor and elderly by day and then sipping $350-a-bottle wine by night. Feinberg confronted Ryan after dinner and demanded to know "how he could live with himself." Confronted by TPM, Ryan did not deny the story, but lamely pleaded ignorance about the cost of the wine. And he was rather ungallant to Ms. Feinberg, whom he called "crazy."

According to TPM: 

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.