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Juanita is not outraged at Paul Ryan spending $350 for a bottle of wine at a restaurant.  “Wine in a restaurant is about the same fair price as popcorn in a picture show,” she explains.

What bothers her is that it wasn’t even an American wine.

It was a French wine called Jayer-Gilles 2004 Echezeaux Grand Cru.  “What happened with the Republicans being all mad at France?” Juanita asks.  “Plus, it’s just crappy wine.  It was the 3530th most popular wine on Wine-Searcher last year.”

Paul Ryan’s table ordered 2 bottles for a total of $700.  “Honey, for $700., you could buy 32 bottles of this Pinot Noir from the best winery in Texas.  Or 42 bottles of Etowah Derailer at Savannah Oaks Winery.  Or, my personal favorite, 53 bottles of Slick Willie’s Grape Wine in Hot Springs, Arkansas.”

“And he could have shared some of that wine with the people he was cutting off from their hard earned rightful benefits from social security and medicare.  Which, at least me, would have been the hospitable thing to do,” she explains.

“And since he was dining with lobbyists, they will take this business lunch off their taxes so you and I will end up paying for it.  Darlin’, if I’m buying the wine for Paul Ryan,” she announces, “he’s drinking Purple Moon Shiraz at $4 a bottle.  It tastes like crap, but that’s exactly how I feel about his tax cuts.”