Governor Christie, it's one thing to bungle a deadline costing NJ schools $400 million, it's quite another to invent reasons about why it got bungled

As many of you know (or can catch up by scrolling down this page), Governor Chris Christie and Education Commissioner Bret Schundler failed to follow simple instructions to garner a $400 million dollar federal payout for New Jersey schools. The horrid mistake meant Ohio would finish 10th in the race for the money and New Jersey fell 3 points short into 11th place.

Well Chris Christie is never one to accept blame for something his administration OBVIOUSLY bungled so almost immediately when the heat got turned up on this $400 million dollar error Christie tried the old tried and true chestnut that the reason New Jersey lost out was nameless faceless bureaucrats. Yes, bureaucrats did it. Then when that failed to get traction Republican Christie pulled out the right wing dog whistle and invoked the name of President Obama. Yes, it was not only the bureaucrats fault but President Obama's fault New Jersey couldn't fill out forms as directed.

Christie may have appeased his base with such platitudes and used them for cover were it not for a troublesome VIDEO proving indeed, Christie isn't telling the truth about ANY of how New Jersey lost out on the money. The video shows the panel asking EXACTLY the questions Christie blames the bureaucrats of not asking or offering help with. NJ.com takes it from here:

About one hour into the presentation, held on Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., a soft-spoken reviewer asked for help locating missing information in the state’s application for Race to the Top funding. After a few moments of silence, New Jersey Education Commissioner Bret Schundler turned to the assistant commissioner to his left.
"No I cannot. I don’t, um..." said the assistant commissioner, Willa Spicer.
"We can come back to that, if someone wants to take a look, that would be fine," said a reviewer, one of five who would grade the state’s application.
Though Christie has portrayed federal officials as nitpicking and begrudging about the state’s application, the video shows that toward the end of the session, federal reviewers asked the New Jersey delegation a second time if they had found the correct information.
"No. No, we all searched," Spicer said.

It's one thing to make a glaring costly mistake. It's another thing entirely to make a glaring mistake and then try to blame others. In this case Chris Christie behaved like a 4 year old.