Chris Christie’s latest big lie: Bankrupt scare tactics and phony bipartisanship

As New Jersey governor Chris Christie visits Iowa and New Hampshire, he continues to insist that if he does not get concessions from the state’s public workers his state will go bankrupt like Detroit. Back in the spring in an edition of his monthly radio show “Ask the Governor,” Christie challenged the Democratically controlled legislature to undertake a second round of pension reforms to stave off the doomsday scenario of state insolvency.

“So until the legislature can come to grips with the idea that to control property taxes, to control...