“If you’re a normal, thinking, breathing human being….”

New Jersey missed out on $300 million in federal “Race to the Top” education funds.  It turns out that the state DOE filled out the application wrong.  But before you start ripping Chris Christie for government mismanagement, check out his masterful, and simultaneous, acceptance of responsibility and attack against the feds:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLSahbjR3k0[/youtube]

His approach, by the way, has “good lawyer technique” written all over it.