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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>newcritics - Latest Comments in Blago! (The Musical)</title><link>http://newcritics.disqus.com/</link><description>the best in web criticism</description><atom:link href="https://newcritics.disqus.com/blago_the_musical/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:07:42 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Blago! (The Musical)</title><link>http://newcritics.com/blog1/2009/01/10/blago-the-musical/#comment-34947787</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you dear&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">يوتيوب</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:07:42 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blago! (The Musical)</title><link>http://newcritics.com/blog1/2009/01/10/blago-the-musical/#comment-25930850</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice post.This reallity show is excellent.I want to be part of it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Victoria Silvstedt</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:59:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blago! (The Musical)</title><link>http://newcritics.com/blog1/2009/01/10/blago-the-musical/#comment-17154775</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By means of its four vales and slopes Verbier in Switzerland is a resort further for the &lt;a href="http://www.switzerlandclothing.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.switzerlandclothing.net/"&gt;switzerland clothing&lt;/a&gt; knowledgeable and folks gazing for a face up to.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">KarlPMartim</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:00:01 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blago! (The Musical)</title><link>http://newcritics.com/blog1/2009/01/10/blago-the-musical/#comment-5086524</link><description>&lt;p&gt;“Thank you! Holy cow! OK. I'm all shook up! I've got a hunka hunka burning love for each one of you. Tonight, Illinois has voted for change."...  Rod Blagojevich, Nov 5, 2002 speaking to supporters at his victory rally after beating Republican Jim Ryan with 52 percent of the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I could never understand how a guy who was a teenager in the 70's could be such an ardent Elvis Presley fan. But whatever you think of the guy's musical taste, you have to admit that he has an operatic gift for political theater.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like the way he (metaphorically) strips the blackjack away from the skinny hipped punk in a leather jacket and whacks him on the side of the head.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example, for years the Republican party dominated the Illinois governor's office by pummeling the Democratic candidates for refusing to rule out tax hikes. Yet, shortly after taking office, the newly elected Republican governor (Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar, the loathsome convict George Ryan)  would hike fees and taxes, and everyone would forget about it, until the next election cycle...when the 'Pubs would break out their handy anti-tax cudgel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blago ripped the signature issue away from his political foes by promising to hold the line on taxes, and rather than following the sensible path of the managing the Illinois state budget by flip-flopping and raising taxes like his liberal Republican predecessors, he declared himself a “Reagan Democrat” and (like the Gipper) created a financial mess by engaging in Wall Street engineered alchemy to justify under funding the state teacher &amp;amp; police pension plans, the state mass transit budget,  and school building programs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The guy ran as a reform Democrat and morphed into a crooked, irresponsible, liberal Republican.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can’t believe I voted for the dude twice…and some time down the road, if Patrick Fitzgerald makes his case, I ‘spose he’s gonna be “Dancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">James S.</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:12:25 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Blago! (The Musical)</title><link>http://newcritics.com/blog1/2009/01/10/blago-the-musical/#comment-5068962</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Unless you're giving Obama the 11:00 number (I'm thinking a power ballad we call "The Audacity of Hope"), I think you have book trouble in Act 2. :)&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">NYC Weboy</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:19:06 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>