i just found this on a west wing message board in a message someone wrote a while back:

" After all, if not for Leo, Jed is a Dartmouth professor emeritus who used to be a politician, Sam is a frustrated lawyer, Toby's never won a political campaign, C.J.'s is a self-hating corporate spokeswoman, Charlie's followed his mother into a D.C. police cemetery, Donna's wondering why the cute Minority Leader of the Wisconsin House of Representatives has never noticed her, the nice blond on his staff, and Josh is a Congressman from Connecticut, 118th out of 200-odd Democrats in seniority, with no chance ever at a Committee Chairmanship, and has probably spent the last 7 years asking failed Presidential nominee Hoynes, "Why didn't you listen to me?""

uh, so sad. RIP John Spencer 1946-2005