Bartlet vs The Speaker
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2011
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- President Bartlet sticks it to the speaker after he pulls a bait and switch and the government is shut down. Season 5, episode 8.
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"Government getting off of peoples backs" as a "solution" assumes that everybody in this country actually has "bootstraps" to pull themselves up by. And the fact of the matter is that they don't.
what I love about this clip is about half way through it turns into a genuine debate about conservative and liberal values. both characters seem to genuinely believe in their ideals and principles
I just realized something quite interesting:The Speaker(Steven Culp) and the President Bartlett(Martin Sheen) both played Robert Kennedy. Sheen in 1974 and Culp in 2000.
*looks at this*
*looks at real government*
...well damnit.
Aaron Sorkin leaving was a big loss for the show. But in the later seasons I thought that the writers did a better job giving depth to the opposition than in Sorkin's years.
If this character were an actual person, I’d vote for him twice
I would vote for this guy in heartbeat.
This is such a great scene. I like how after The Speaker talks about congress being in charge of the budget, like only they do it, Bartlett points out that more than 2000 people worked with all kinds of interest groups to come up with that budget.
Government... working. Both parties... cooperating. This must be the Twilight Zone.
This was the “Colonel Jessop Code Red” moment on the West Wing. I love when Martin Sheen leans in and shows his anger. Brilliant acting.
No show can do 4-5 minute scenes like this and make them feel like 30 seconds. What a show.
This show was fantastic. Nothing much like it on these days.
I love how he can handle an entire series of world altering crises leaving himself with 5 minutes before he has to be somewhere and says in a resigned tone, "What's next?"
"We had a deal...I will leave this government shut down". We had a deal, good man
Wish I had Bartlett's work ethic. Five minutes before dinner and he wants to know what's next.
We all think with our hearts instead our heads when it comes to politics. Unless we have spent 50 years studying a particular subject and have spoken to a thousand people, we can all stand to consider the possibility that we are the ones who are wrong, and listen to differing opinions.
Coming back here to see what intelligent debate looks like between two patriots.
Frank Newman, former Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury, talking about the US national debt. The US national debt is nothing more than the sum of outstanding Treasury bonds. Want to decrease the Debt? Buy back the T-Bonds. People often think of the national debt as if it were a credit card loan, but this is wrong. The federal budget works nothing like a household budget, and the national debt works nothing like a household debt.
Martin is just such an amazing actor. He does a “sigh” better than any other actor I know. I loved this shoe and still do. Current politicians could learn a lot from Aaron’s masterful scripts.