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That's fine. Just don't mix up fictional Republicans like Rep. Bruno with Republicans after Trump was elected President, because they are a whole different, poisonous species.

Made a nice change for him to play someone with some decency instead of Haverhill in NYPD Blue.

That was back when the GOP were patriots and could be portrayed as such while having a different point of view. Today they’re seditionist who puts party or personality over country.

Yeah but this was normal. Republicans got co-opted by the extreme right around 2008amd became the super racist, bigoted backward thinking tools we know today.

Republicans are all about cheap political points. That's why they keep pretending to care about abortion.

There are way too many great scenes to make that statement. Sorry, but we must disagree.

(Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister) A much better show than The West Wing!

Again!!! What is it with the person uploading these clips??

@@anenglishmaninsandiego Almost like they want you to watch the whole show ;)

This is what happens. Teens in the White House. You screwed this up from the beginning. You should've been there on McGarry, and run an internal investigation. You come remarkably close to perjury in the Claypool deposition. I'd like to hold hearings into the two of you being stupid.

Precisely!

@@philipwhiuk, Yep!

From the West Wing wiki: "Congressman Simon Blye (D) was a member of Congress and a friend of Leo McGarry. He wrote an op-ed piece for the Washington Post calling for McGarry's resignation after he admitted to drug and alcohol abuse. McGarry kicks him out of the White House and accuses him of "whoring for Atlantic Oil". "

We see how Leo is always trying to do the right thing, but we shouldn't forget that he is a "world class political operative" and a "big guy in the Democratic Party". You don't get to be that without cultivating relationships, even with bad people.

I think it's less that he's "not a good guy" and more he was basically running his own agenda for the future of the Democratic party, but Leo and Jed ARE the party leadership. Everyone else is trying to run around them and it's pissing Leo off. When Leo says, "the president refused my resignation" that's basically the end of the conversation and Simon should have understood that better. If he takes potshots at the sitting president's Chief of Staff he's just endangering his own future as a politician. And Leo rightly points out how he's using the scandal to get face time in the media.

@@ThiagoNascimelo "Leo is always trying to do the right thing" -- except when he had that scientific research cut from a press briefing CJ was going to do because its facts and conclusions didn't fit the Democrat's agenda

@@firstname4337 When did that happen?

Unfortunately, you are mistaken. Rev Al Caldwell was played by F. William Parker, and reappears in season 2. Simon Blye was played by Dakin Matthews, and only appears in this episode.

They do look very similar!

That’s a negative sir.

@@MrATimm You are correct. Thanks. I was thinking Dakin Matthews for both.

He is everything I hate in politics

Not best for the party...what is best for his seat of power.

What's best for his pockets and his time in the limelight*

Simon isn't just a typical Democrat party donor. He's a Typical Political insider/donor. The GOP is filled with Simons as well.

@@catherinewilliams9680 The Republicans tend to be much stronger. Some of the ex-GOP strategists who support Biden said that the Republicans would have lined up behind their nominee without reservation had he performed as poorly as Biden did in the debate.

I’m sure you identify strongly with the title. Now, off to get your fix!

It must to unsettling to discover that Biden is not as addled as right wing media has made him out to be.

Only if one uses the definition of "think" very loosely. Your EEG has been an uninterrupted flatline since birth, and it will continue that way until death.