"And just like the United States prevailed in that......."

Really? I always thought Pearl Harbor was pretty much a Japanese rout.

What a nimrod!!

I definitely do NOT want to know what political strategy he will employ that will be a metaphor for the 'Battle of the Bulge"!!!!!

Of course, it's not a whole lot less hyperbolic than the French media's characterization of the Obama inauguration as something akin to the liberation of Paris...but that's what makes this stuff fun(besides, the Parisians are French so what do you expect?

I'm still holding out for my John Adams opera, perhaps simply "Blago", or some title akin to "Dr. Atomic" - "Gov. Bombastic?"

Well you can see his point. At 6am on 12/9 he's fast asleep and the phone rings with a voice saying there's two FBI agents at his front door waiting to arrest him.

In Illinois the CW was Fitzgerald was going to arrest and indict him sometime in January in the Rezko case he'd been building for over 5 years.

It took everybody by surprise. Just like the US government thought the entire Japanese fleet was headed for Indonesia and the Philippines in December 1941.

Nobody figured Fitzgerald would hold a press conference to lambast Blago in public on other unrelated charges anymore than the US government thought the Japanese would be crazy enough to mount a sneak attack on the biggest Pacific fleet base of a nation 4 times their size that had a commensurately larger industrial base, most of which was underutilized at the time.

Here's what I think Blago's defense is. Fitzy originally wanted to charge him with demanding or getting kickbacks through Rekzo and Levine from big Wall St. banks in return for giving them big honkin money management contracts on IL pension funds. Yet those same banks (now deceased or eaten) had the business before he became governor, got the business from him after Rezko and Levine were busted and had the business of every other big state pension fund because they were big Wall St. investment banks and the only ones capable or thought to be capable of administering such large funds.

Then he'll go show the campaign contributions from the principles at these banks to his predecessors as governor, George Ryan, Jim Egdar, and Jim Thompson. For good measure he might throw in the campaign contributions to NY and CA governors juxtaposed with their pension fund business too.

Now Fitzy wants to indict him on trying to sell the senate seat appointment. So he's going to prove Blago appointed Burris for money? Burris doesn't have any personal money to speak of and he was never a big time fundraiser for his own campaigns. It's highly unlikely he'd be able to raise much for the already wildly unpopular Blago even if he wanted to. For a $100,000 fundraising job his wife got from a friend of a friend? Not likely. She was fired the other day. Can't get your call taken let alone raise much money if your name is Blagojevich these days.

This is why both parties and Fitzgerald want Blago impeached. They don't really want to have to try to prove in court he was worse than any other governor in the country while he has the opportunity to air dirty linen about the whole political system.