These Rat Senators need to be able to say "I don't vote against all Bush nominees, only the bad ones"
They select a few non-controversial nominees to do this with, and the media eats up their "fair-mindedness" and case by case decision making, while saying the GOP senators are in lock-step because they vote for every single one of Bush's nominees.
Just the usual game playing.
When a grand total of three (3) Senators voted against Ginsberg, there's not much room for the Demodogs to say the Pubbies vote in lockstep. If they did, Ginsberg would not be on the USSC screwing up every vote.