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Episode 214
THE WAR AT HOME
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Personal
After the State of the Union speech, First Lady Abigail Bartlet quietly seethed about last minute changes that were written into the speech. She took particular issue with the prominence of a bipartisan Blue Ribbon Committee, and the removal of any mention of the Violence Against Women Act, as well as a surprising statement by the President in favor of school uniforms.
While waiting impatiently for Joey Lucas to collect polling data from cold-call responses to the State of the Union address, Josh found another enemy in the elements when a blackout hit the phone banks and shut down the polls until they could get power again.
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Political
After the President admonished environmentalists for failing to admonish eco-terrorists, extreme liberal Seth Gillette came forward to announce that there's been interest in the far political left to nominate him as a 3rd party candidate.
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After his State of the Union speech, Bartlet (Martin Sheen) boldly greenlights a daring military mission to rescue five federal drug agents taken hostage by Colombian terrorist commandos -- until complications arise -- while Toby (Richard Schiff) is confronted by an angry, liberal Senator (guest star Ed Begley, Jr., "St. Elsewhere") who threatens to launch a third-party run for President. Elsewhere, a frustrated Josh (Bradley Whitford) tries to conduct a poll to sample reaction to the speech which he hopes will provide support for a new gun protection law but he wonders why his assistant Donna (Janel Moloney) keeps urging him to ask out an attractive pollster (guest star Marlee Matlin). In addition, C.J. (Allison Janney) tries to convince the host (guest star Ted McGinley, "Married...with Children") of a TV political program to include a controversial policeman (guest star Gregalan Williams) as a guest who was the President's invitee at his speech while Abbey (Stockard Channing) is livid with Bartlet for what he said and didn't say in his speech. John Spencer, Rob Lowe and Dule Hill also star.
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