Obama’s goons are all idiots.
But what’s with the GWB guy?
R judges like this are a direct result of the Senate blue slip rule. This is where a single senator can hold up a nominee. They do this specifically to frustrate nominees likely to rule opposite to their personal preferences. Here, even under a R president and R Senate, a D senator in Oregon can hold up a nominee in his state, until the president replaces it with one more favorable to leftism.