  In this short note, we observe that the techniques of our recent work
"Pseudo-modularity and Iwasawa theory" can be used to provide a new proof of
some of the residually reducible modularity lifting results of Skinner and
Wiles. In these cases, we have found that a deformation ring of ordinary
pseudorepresentations is equal to the Eisenstein local component of a Hida
Hecke algebra. We also show that Vandiver's conjecture implies Sharifi's
conjecture.
