Democrats sharply criticized their Republican colleagues for refusing to seat Judge Merrick Garland, a man well qualified by traditional criteria but who would have swung to the left what had been, for the most part, an ideologically balanced Court. Yet those same Democrats voted to refuse to seat Neil Gorsuch, whose qualifications were at least as good as Garland's, and who is likely to restore the balance that had been there for years with Justice Scalia.  They will then complain about how it was only Gorsuch's backers who were political hacks.