# Bush To Nominate Democrat Ben Nelson to Agriculture?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-nominate-democrat-ben-nelson-to-agriculture/275429>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 18, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-nominate-democrat-ben-nelson-to-agriculture/275429 "2004-11-18T06:10:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-nominate-democrat-ben-nelson-to-agriculture/275429/21 "2004-11-23T19:08:33Z")

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Because Zell votes with the President on **everything**. There’s no advantage to be gained by taking him out of the Senate.

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**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-nominate-democrat-ben-nelson-to-agriculture/275429/22 "2004-11-23T23:19:31Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> I don’t recall how many Republicans were in Clinton’s Cabinet - none in his first term, I think.

His Defense Secretary William Cohen is a Republican.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-nominate-democrat-ben-nelson-to-agriculture/275429/23 "2004-11-23T23:39:32Z")

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If he’s going to put a Democrat as Ag secretary, I wish he’d put in the outgoing congressman from my district, [Charles Stenholm](http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2911349), a twenty six year conservative democrat and senior member of the House Agricultrual Committee. Charlie got the shaft in DeLays’ Texas redistricting and lost his seat to a Republican freshman, Randy Neugebauer. I was far more upset about losing my congressman that I was about the Presidential election.

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-nominate-democrat-ben-nelson-to-agriculture/275429/24 "2004-11-24T00:46:30Z")

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Is Secretary of Agriculture even a good job if you’re already a Senator?

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**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-nominate-democrat-ben-nelson-to-agriculture/275429/25 "2004-11-24T03:57:42Z")

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I think that sometimes they actually do pick a guy who is right for a certain job. No matter what is political affilliation is believed to be like. They all kind of l seem to like that Greenspan guy . . .

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