A Washington Post puff piece hails Josh as the 101st Senator on the same day he embarrasses a conservative Senate Democrat. Senator Carrick is holding up military promotions until he gets his promised missile launcher. Josh's ploy to force Carrick to back down backfires spectacularly. Elsewhere, Will grows increasinly frustrated as Toby obsesses over his message calendar, an expression of Toby's own frustration with the Bartlet administration's lack of a cohesive strategy. Leo edits an EPA report about coal mining, which upsets CJ, who is forced to repeat a lame scripted line in a press conference as a result. Amy Gardner uses the First Lady's name to get a violence prevention program funded, which sets off the President, who's not thrilled to see his absent wife used for political gain.

Starring:

DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
JOSHUA MALINA as Will Bailey
JANEL MOLONEY as Donna Moss
RICHARD SCHIFF as Toby Ziegler
JOHN SPENCER as Leo McGarry
BRADLEY WHITFORD as Josh Lyman
and MARTIN SHEEN as President Josiah Bartlet

Will:  So we put it in a context.

Toby:  We don't want people saying, 'Hey, thanks for the nine million new jobs.  I've got three of them and I can't make my house payment.' 

Donna:  Did you read it?

Josh:  I'm not reading it.  There's some new stuff since the early edition.

Donna:  It's a great piece.

Josh:  It's a puff piece so I'll return reporters' calls -- which I won't.

Leo:  Morning, Mr. President.

Bartlet:  What's the problem with the Belgian elections?

Leo:  Is this the start of a riddle?

Bartlet:  It's been months since we reduced a $2 trillion government to poll-tested bromides.  You think James Madison ran his presidency off a message calendar?

Leo:  Probably yes.

Bartlet:  Life on Mondays, liberty on Wednesdays, shaking off the yoke of the tyrannical monarch on alternate Thursdays.

Josh:  I'm going to the Hill.

Ryan:  What's on the Hill?

Donna:  Some buildings with a big statue of a guy with a beard.

Josh:  And when were you promised --?

Carrick:  Seven years ago.

Josh:  Under the last president.

Carrick:  Right.

Josh:  'Kay, a bunch of things have fallen by the wayside since then, like Communism.

Toby:  FDR built the middle class in a hundred days.  How many days do we even have left?

Leo:  Forty-nine percent.  We can't start another New Deal.

Toby:  How 'bout fighting for the old one instead of fighting with Republicans over how much to cut?  Where's our hundred days?  Where's our Great Society?  Where's our New Frontier?  Somebody's got to do what we came here to do.