Ways and Means:

I didn't love it. It was okay, but only the POTUS story about Mrs Langinham stood out for me. Donna on a date was funny and cute, the debate about the veto was well done, but in the end it failed to stand out as a great episode. Still, loved the POTUS story, poor Mrs Langinham Oh and CJ's one hit victory was great, but even Alison Janney's superb effort didn't make it a great episode.

On The Day Before:

Now I did love this It was a great episode, cos it was sad and that's what West Wing does best. Like ER, it's not the happy, 'we won' episodes which works, it's 'were hanging on by a thread, hey what are they doing with those scissors' episodes which are the best.

Through the whole thing they gave hints they were loosing the war, having people come at them. It reminded me of vuctures circling a dieing animal, an image I think they wanted, without having to spell it out. Toby's "were bleeding" comment was great, because it was bascially asking for help, which for Toby is a hard thing.

The best moment was obviously CJ's dressing down of silly blonde bitch. That was great Cos it showed CJ was becoming her talented self again, after recovering from her slip up.

I didn't understand the Donna can't date bloke thing, sorry I liked the whole episode, it worked, it was sad, yet provided a ray of hope. But I know I'd be terrible in politics, cos if that arrogant Senator did that to me (baseball bat, meet face)