Bring Your Wife To Work Day

Haven't followed the Alito hearings all that closely, meaning I haven't seen/heard them "live" but learn about it via the news re-caps on NPR, and of course the blogs. Here's a great comment by Ann Althouse regarding Mrs. Alito's crying incident:

The hearings do need to be tough. They don't need to be as obnoxious as they've been, but they should be vigorous and searching. The odd thing is that we expect a wife to sit behind her husband, unable to participate, just a backdrop of support. It's strange the way wives are used in politics to create an image for the man. In the business world, a man bringing his wife along to sit with him for a job interview would be out of his mind.