Guv compares impeachment trial to Pearl Harbor and a hanging; Mayor Daley called Guv "cockoo" again.

Time for the Guv to be removed.

Yesterday, Guv compares his arrest to Pearl Harbor:

In an interview with the Associated Press yesterday, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) compared 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,” said Blagojevich, who faces federal corruption charges for attempting to sell President Obama’s vacant Senate seat. “It was a complete surprise, completely unexpected. And just like the United States prevailed in that, we’ll prevail in this.” Blagojevich’s impeachment trial in the Illinois state senate is slated to begin next week.

Now today, Guv compares his impeachment trial to a hanging. From The Capitol Fax Blog:

Tribune:

Gov. Rod Blagojevich today likened his Monday impeachment trial to a “hanging” of the 12 million people of Illinois.

The governor used an Old West analogy, citing an example where a cowboy accused of stealing a horse would get a fair trial before they hung him.
“Under these rules, I’m not getting a fair trial. They’re just hanging me,” Blagojevich said at the James R. Thompson Center. […]

“If they can do this to a governor, they can do this to any citizen in Illinois.”

And there is more. Guv calls on the same newspaper in whch he attempted to bribe according to his criminal complaint to fight for him:

This part was just loaded with irony, considering that he’s accused of attempting to bribe Tribune owner Sam Zell into firing a member of his paper’s editorial board…

Blagojevich is also asking the state’s newspaper editorial boards to urge the state Senate to change the rules of his impeachment trial.
Speaking at a news conference in Chicago Friday, Blagojevich said he’s “mostly'’ done the right thing for the people of Illinois and he called on newspapers to “get involved.'’

Finally, Mayor Daley repeats again that Guv is cockoo:

Funny, but true…

If Gov. Blagojevich wants to invoke the insanity defense, he won’t get an argument from Mayor Daley.

Daley turned into an amateur psychiatrist Friday when asked about the governor’s claim that the state Senate’s upcoming impeachment trial is a plot to get Blagojevich out of the way to pave the wave for a massive tax increase.

“I’ve said, ‘cuckoo’ once. I’ll say it again: ‘Cuckoo,’ ” the mayor said of the governor’s claim.

That’s the second time in four months that Daley has referred to Illinois’ disgraced governor as “cuckoo.”

Time for a little music in dedication to the Guv. Singer Bill Withers in 1971 “Ain’t No Sunshine.”