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To: Lane3 who wrote (64195)	5/7/2008 6:40:56 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 543128

dupe

To: Lane3 who wrote (64195)	5/7/2008 6:41:18 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543128

You're assuming that the rejection of a candidate under that rule would be strictly based on politics. If that were the case, the minority would automatically reject all candidates until the president came up with one from the minority party. It makes no sense. What makes more sense is that they would use that "veto" to get rid of the outliers, should the president be perverse enough to nominate an outlier. I'm not assuming that at all. And that isn't how it worked, by and large. It wasn't conceived of as a way to get the president to nominate someone from the minority. It was conceived of as a way to get the president to nominate someone who would be acceptable to at least some of the minority. It was intended to moderate the nominations, and it mostly did that.