Only problem is, that story isn't true. Even when the Democrats held a 56-44 advantage in the Senate in 1993 & 1994, the Republicans still tried to stop nominees they didn't like. Here's a tale about one of them.
In 1993, Larry LaRocco, then a Democratic Congressman from Idaho, suggested to Bill Clinton that attorney John Tait be nominated to fill a vacant federal district judgeship in the state. The following year, Clinton went ahead and put Tait's name forward.
But GOP Sen. Larry Craig (and his former Idaho colleague Dirk Kempthorne) were irked about being left out of the process - usually senators get to advise presidents about judicial nominees, but because they were Republicans, they got passed over in favor of LaRocco. Primarily, of course, they were pissed about a Democrat (Tait) getting the nod.
So what did the aggrieved Idaho senators do? Did they just take their lumps and quietly lie down? Hardly:
"Two months ago, U.S. Sens. Larry Craig and Dirk Kempthorne successfully blocked Tait's confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee."
Lewiston Morning Tribue, 12/14/1994
Both sides have blocked nominees in committee. That has gone on for years and years.
The Democrats, though, are trying to filibuster OUTSIDE of committee, and have done this over and over again 10 times. 10 Times! This is unheard of in the 200+ years of the Senate.
Democrats rampantly abused the filibuster for decades against civil rights legislation and are engaging in unheard-of-abuse of it yet again.
What surprises me is that 19 Democrats wanted to TOTALLY eliminate the filibuster in 1995, that which even the Republicans say they don't want to do. Lieberman was one of them, so was Kennedy and Kerry. Now they say that the filibuster against judicial nominees shouldn't be done away with.
Hypocrites.