Blagomania; or, My Own Personal Pearl Harbor

Here’s what (still) Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich told the AP a couple of days ago:

Dec. 9 to my family, to us, to me, is what Pearl Harbor Day was to the United States. It was a complete surprise, completely unexpected. And just like the United States prevailed in that, we’ll prevail in this.

(TNR’s Isaac Chotiner calls it the Quote of the Century. At the very least, it’s our Quote of the Day.)

I don’t know about you, but I’m really looking forward to the three-hour Ben Affleck epic on the whole sordid affair. (Matt Damon as Blago? Think about it.) A day of infamy captured forever in craptastic celluloid wonder. Can enough justice ever be done, though, cinematic or otherwise, to Blago’s superlative self-absorption? The only word for it — and I do hope it one day enters the psycho-medical lexicon — is Blagomania.