Bartlet for America

Teaser

Leo: All right, listen. I gotta be here; I'm stuck with this thing. Will you stay with Josh today?

Mike Casper: Yeah.

Margaret [holding out a cell phone]: Josh.

Leo: And can you do me a favor and get me a secure phone hookup so I can monitor this thing? All I got is the cell.

Thing 1 = testimony at the Congressional hearing
Thing 2 = new threat of terrorism against black churches in Tennessee
Act 3

Cliff Calley: This is bush league. This is why good people hate us. This, right here, this thing. This isn't what these hearings are about. He cannot possibly have been properly prepared by counsel for these questions, nor should he ever have to answer them publicly. And if you proceed with this line of questioning, I will resign this committee and wait in the tall grass for you, Congressman, because you are killing the party.

Congressman Gibson [turning to Committee Chairman]: Who the hell is this?

Thing = Gibson's attitude that the object of the majority is to win, and his plan to embarrass Leo by bringing up Leo's lapse from sobriety three years earlier
Posted by Philateley at December 12, 2001 10:49 PM