Paul Ryan Trolls Chris Christie After Packers Beat Dallas Cowboys

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After the Green Bay Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) poked fun at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) for his love of Dallas football.

Christie took some heat after he hugged Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones when the Cowboys won last weekend.

And now it seems like the governor may never live it down.

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  1. Paulie seems to think it’s just a bromance between Christie and Jones, but it’s a big business deal between a firm owned by the Cowboys and the Port Authority which Christie runs along with Cuomo which may be the subject of more investigations into Christie. It’s to be expected that one R would not see the incipient corruption in another.

  2. Watch out, he’ll hump your leg.

  3. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    Though a jagoff in his own right?
    Ryan can troll any Clownboys fan-- and I’m good with it.

    Tony Romo is cursed, bad karma, whatever you wish to call it.
    But he will NEVER win a Super Bowl.

    Think about this:
    4th & 1 at your opponent’s 33yd-line; just under 4 minutes to play-- 2 timeouts.
    What play would you run?
    Off-tackle? Quick-out route?

    Not the least likely to succeed-- right?
    Jason Garrett-- goes too-clever-by-half: Let’s throw deep! What’s the worst tha…
    Clownboys, their owner, and their fans-- who ooze arrogance-- are wholly deserving of this karmic comeuppance.

    Forever.

    jw1

  4. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    Found this on the Dallas Morning News site via Twitter:

    Wanna’ bet-- that like ‘washing dishes in a soup kitchen’?
    That Paul Ryan and the rugrats had just exited a nice, warm, luxury box?

    jw1

  5. Avatar for topcat topcat says:

    You Can’t pick your family or your fans.

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