More to the point, only those Republicans who thought it was really great when Democrats used Senate rules to block Bush appointees are in a position to do the same thing now. Otherwise they're big fat hypocrites. Even if it were correct, "they did it too" is not a defense.

PS: Andre Davis was confirmed when he was nominated in 2000, too, but his nomination died when the GOP refused to let it come to a vote during Clinton's last year in office. He is an experienced and accomplished judge and to my knowledge not a single person on either side of the aisle has a negative thing to say about him; there is no reason on Earth to hold his nomination up a second time other than generic, reflexive Republican petulance.