{"id":4147,"date":"2005-10-12T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/10\/12\/on-harriet-its-wait-and-see-s"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:30","slug":"on-harriet-its-wait-and-see-schmait-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/10\/12\/on-harriet-its-wait-and-see-schmait-see\/","title":{"rendered":"on Harriet, it’s “wait and see” \/ “schmait & see”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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proof, see <\/FONT>Prof. Bainbridge<\/FONT><\/A>‘s new <\/FONT>Harriet Miers Poll<\/FONT><\/A>.  So far, <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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almost <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>no one is willing to “Wait and See.”<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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that many <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Conservatives who talk about “strict <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>constructionism” <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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and <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>“originalism” are mostly into “resultism”  Of course, it <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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could also be that webloggers and their public would rather <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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surely seems, that those <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Federalistales are very<\/EM> big on woe-is-we<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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If the rowdy citizens of the blogisphere were in charge of the Nation, we’d have only lynch mobs and kangaroo courts.  For proof, see Prof. Bainbridge‘s new Harriet Miers Poll.  So far, almost no one is willing to “Wait and See.”     This plays into the hands of observers who believe that many Conservatives who talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-14T","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12979,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/12979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}