Quoting Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
On Dec 3, 2007 9:55 PM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Think of it as closer to how the US President is supposed to make appointees with the "advice and consent of the Senate" (only with the President paying a lot more attention to the advice part).
Is Jimbo supposed to be the President or the Senate in this analogy?
The President. It really isn't a very good analogy. After I sent it I realized how it doesn't work well (and the fact that you need to ask that question really demonstrates how bad it is).