The system worked

It's Justice Alito now.

Fulfilling its constitutional role, the Senate voted to advise and consent rather than obstruct and veto, and to judge a President's appointment to a Supreme Court vacancy on the basis of merit, rather than ideology.

You know. Just like Senate Republicans did, when Bill Clinton was appointing people like Ruth Bader Ginsberg- who was and is much further to the Left than Sam Alito is to the Right.

And just like Senate Democrats refused to do today. The Ginsberg confirmation was accomplished with the support of both parties, despite its ideologically divisive nature; sadly, the Democrats chose today to be petty and partisan, where the Republicans had been cooperative and magnanimous.