Blago: 'Dec. 9 to my Family, To Us, To Me, Is What Pearl Harbor Day Was to the United States'

Dude, do you really want people to take you seriously? You brought this mess on yourself, and now to compare it to a vicious sneak attack on the United States is just a little overboard.

I guess we shold now wait for the inevitable compariosn to 9/11.

Illinois' embattled but defiant governor turned to the history books to describe the emotional strain on him and his family, comparing his arrest last month to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

"Dec. 9 to my family, to us, to me, is what Pearl Harbor Day was to the United States," Gov. Rod Blagojevich told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday. "It was a complete surprise, completely unexpected. And just like the United States prevailed in that, we'll prevail in this."

The two-term Democrat, speaking on a snowy sidewalk outside the office of one of his attorneys, said there was no chance he would resign before the start of his impeachment trial in the state Senate next week.

"I'm going to fight this to the very end," he said.