The staff tries to come to terms with the effects of the shooting. Toby is particular is trying to find ways to circumvent the constitution, so that he can go after the hate groups responsible for the shooting. Josh is recovering from the surgery, and is banned from receiving visitors, much to the annoyance of Toby who wants to go around and see him.
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DONNA He’s supposed to be resting and I don't want people going over there getting him fuhtushed.
TOBY Fartoost. Don't bring the Yiddish unless you know what you're doing.
DONNA You know what word should be Yiddish, but isn't? Spatula.
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Sam is asked to bring in an old friend to stand for Congress. On paper he looks a great candidate; after a little digging it transpires that the candidate prefers all white juries and was in an all white fraternity in college. Sam has to break the bad news to him and he eventually looses his race for the house.
The midterms are eventually held and in the end, after four hundred million dollars, everything stays essentially the same.
To Zoey's dismay, Charlie struggles alone with his guilt over being the target of the Rosslyn shooting becoming more and more distant
Bartlet discovers that the man he beat to win his first congressional race in New Hampshire is running for school board district, he is willing to go on record and talk to the press about him, Leo won’t let him
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LEO : Let's play a game of 'Who Do You Think I'm Going to Agree With'? Fourteen doctors say you should wait another week before assuming a campaign schedule. Who do you think I'm going to agree with?
BARTLET Get away from me.
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On the night of the mid terms the White House they host a reception for radio talk show hosts. While talking to them Bartlet notices Dr Jenna Jacobs, whose ultra conservative views Bartlet tares apart.
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BARTLET Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.
JENNA JACOBS I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.
BARTLET Yes, it does. Leviticus.
JENNA JACOBS 18:22
BARTLET Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I had you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, and always clears the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff, Leo McGarry, insists on working on the Sabbath, Exodus 35:2, clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important, 'cause we've got a lot of sports fans in this town. Touching the skin of a dead pig makes us unclean, Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother, John, for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads?
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Thoughts for the episode…….
While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tightass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.
Bartlet trivia time
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BARTLET Good morning, everybody. Anybody know what the word 'acalculia' means?
SAM It's the inability to form arithmetic functions. I'm sorry, Mr. President. You wanted to answer your own question, didn't you?
BARTLET Yeah, but I'll get over it.
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Well there is something I didn’t know??!
We hold these truth’s to be self evident:
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C.J. That's the way it is. In a democracy, oftentimes, the other people win
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Timing is a slight issue in this episode, they were shot at in ‘What kind of day has it been?’ some time around the Law School graduation at George Washington, normally around May or early June. But C.J. says, "A week ago the job approval's at 51. We get shot at and it's at 81. Yeah, I think the numbers are soft." and the meeting she says that in has an on screen date projected that says "August 14th. 12 weeks before Election Day" and that episode ends on election day in November and they count out the weeks in between to make it obvious; so, one week after the shooting was in mid-August)?
It’s a strange strange world!
Apparently Aaron Sorkin told zap2it.com that a woman called his office wanting to know Josh’s e mail address, logic tells you that on some level she would know it was a TV show because she called their office, maybe she was not ready for the next step in the equation!