the Globe claims that the Democrats have approved most of Bush's nominations, and certainly are being no more unreasonable than Republicans were during the Clinton administration.

I read somewhere (I thought it was at volokh, but I'm failing to find it there) that the big difference between this current round of opposition-to-judicial-nominations and previous rounds was thatthe overall approval percentages are in line with the past few presidencies but if you look only at judges above some level (appelate court?) they're getting stomped at a much higher rate.

It could be that this is a function of the judges being nominated for those positions. *shrug*