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14cyclenotes makes an excellent point:

So far no pundit I've seen has picked up on this little fact: Alito says here that we shouldn't hold his stated opposition to abortion against him, because when he wrote that he was saying what he needed to say to get the job.

Has anyone else noticed that he's trying to get a job now, too?

Pundits might not have noticed, but at least one Senator has (via DailyKos):

A second committee Democrat, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, sounded skeptical of Judge Alito's assurance that the 1985 document should not be given great weight because it was an application for a political job. "And so I asked him, 'Why shouldn't we consider the answers that you're giving today an application for another job?' " Mr. Kennedy said.

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In other news, I need a political icon.