http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=17511Author Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 With President Obama and Senate Democrats rallying behind Tom Daschle after Friday's revelations of back tax troubles, Republican senators faced a difficult choice"”whether to support the Cabinet nomination of a former member of their exclusive club, or strike a clean shot at the new Democratic president. "If this were anyone else, I don't think there would be any question that [the nomination] would not make it out of the committee,"� said a top Senate GOP aide, referring to Daschle's 18 years of Senate service, including stints as both majority and minority leader. "But he's a former majority leader, which means a lot to these guys."� Senate Republicans...]]>