We are probably just hours away from an announcement of a Supreme Court nominee by Obama and it's not clear at this point just how vigorously the GOP will oppose the almost certain liberal pick by the president.This Politico piece by Andy Coller and Daniel Libit points out the differing philosophies of the Republicans and Democrats when it comes to SCOTUS nominations: Conservatives remember Sen. Ted Kennedy's ferocious attack on "Robert Bork's America," the pubic-hair-on-the-Coke-can humiliations visited upon Clarence Thomas and the way that Samuel Alito's wife cried after Sen. Lindsey Graham recounted the Democrats' charges against her husband. Echoing a widely held conservative belief, the Heritage Foundation's Michael Franc says the two sides just do things differently. "Liberal senators come to a battle over judicial nominations armed with submachine guns," he said, "and conservatives come with pen knives." But truth be told, the vast majority of...(Read Full Post)