All-but-forgotten GOP Fop

Nearly out of things to whine about.

Byron York from both FrumForum and from The Washington Examiner. So he's got that going for him:

York: Ryan Accuser Won’t Talk
July 11th

Byron York writes:

Susan Feinberg, an associate professor of management and global business at Rutgers University, caused a stir in the left-wing blogosphere over the weekend with her account of witnessing House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan drinking a glass of $350-a-bottle wine at an upscale restaurant near the Capitol …

On Saturday, I sent Feinberg an email asking a few questions about the incident and about her unhappiness with Ryan. First, the photo she snapped of Ryan and two men sitting a few tables away appeared to be taken from her own table, and on that table was a bottle of wine.
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I asked Feinberg, an economist, what price constituted outrageous in her mind. Would she have been as upset if Ryan’s wine were $150 a bottle? Or $100 a bottle? Or perhaps $80 a bottle, like her own — which is, after all, more than a day’s labor for a worker making the minimum wage.
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If the problem was not just the wine’s cost, then what other factors were involved in Feinberg’s anger?
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Something something Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Something something Rep. Barney Frank.

And so forth.

You know how this script always goes

In case you have no idea what this is all about, Balloon Juice's "DougJ in Damascus" has all you need to know here

"But Paul Ryan was drinking $350 wine with a hedge fund guy while scheming to funnel Medicare money into tax cuts for hedge fund guys, and the hedge fund guy was paying for the bottle! That’s bribery, plain and simple. Ryan would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for that meddling kid."

In case you didn't know who Mr. York was before today, here is his CV:

York is the Chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner, a post he joined in early 2009 following his work as White House correspondent for National Review magazine and a columnist for The Hill. He is also a syndicated columnist.
He has also written for The Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, and New York Post, among other publications. A frequent guest on television and radio, he has appeared on such programs as Meet the Press, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The O'Reilly Factor, Tim Russert, Special Report with Brit Hume, Laura Ingraham, and Hardball with Chris Matthews, and has contributed occasional commentaries to National Public Radio.

Before working for National Review, York was a news producer at CNN Headline News and an investigative reporter for The American Spectator. In 2001 York explored the misfortunes of his former employer in an essay written for The Atlantic Monthly, "The Life and Death of The American Spectator".

Mr. York also picks up the occasional column in the Washington Post, and wrote one of those Very Long Titled Books -- "The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President—and Why They'll Try Even Harder Next Time" -- publish by an outfit called "Crown Forum", which is Random House's Wingnut Welfare grindhouse, famous for publishing such civic masterpieces as Ann Coulter's untreated toxic effluent --

“Just as fire seeks oxygen, Democrats seek power, which is why they will always be found championing the mob whether the mob consists of Democrats lynching blacks or Democrats slandering the critics of Obama Care as racists.”

-- and whatever secret Commie Plot David Horowitz has scrawled down in his own poo this week, as well as giving people like former Bush spokespixie and current Fox News employee Dana Perino nice salaries and titles.

In other words, while Mr. York may have been brutally shortchanged in the "talent" and "productive citizen" departments, he has insider friends with connections and money who make sure Mr. York will never in this life have to go without his favorite pomade.

Just like John Galt!