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Here's how the whole process will go (I wish I could take credit for this list):

A conservative columnist piece slamming the first nominee the Obama White House floats. This will be based entirely on unnamed sources.

Republicans find some routine case and trot it out as an example of how activist the nominee is.

Washington Post columnists write that, while the Republicans are taking it all too far, there are indeed legitimate problems with the nominee’s judicial philosophy.

If the nominee is anything other than a white, Christian, heterosexual male, discussions on CNN's "The Situation Room" about whether the nominee is capable of rendering unbiased decisions.

Rahm Emanuel spends three months trying to convince Olympia Snowe and Lindsey Graham to support the nominee.

Olympia Snowe and Lindsey Graham do not support the nominee.

There is a lengthy GOP filibuster.

NYTimes columnist David Brooks writes about how sad it is that Democrats have destroyed the Senate’s comity and that Obama needs to renominate Robert Bork as a goodwill gesture.