Jed points out that Doug went to Josh, and didn't come to him: "If he wanted my advice, or if you did, for that matter...." He breaks that off and says, "Doug didn't call Hal Collins -- you did. You recruited the finance committee." Liz: "Mom made a useful suggestion or two in the early years." Jed, on a quoting binge tonight, says, "'The Speaker can convince most people of most things and himself of almost anything.' Doug came up with that?" Liz says they're a good team: "We have different strengths, skills. He has skills you've never even bothered...." Jed interjects, "He's a great guy and a fantastic father. You're the politician. Why the hell don't you run?" Liz: "Because Annie pierced her face. And this one can't catch...or bathe." Huh? So the family's falling apart, and your political career would be the last nail in its coffin? Seriously, these are pretty mundane and transient problems. Jed insists, "You can handle it...." Liz: "You can't. Forgive me, Ms. Steinem and Ms. Friedan...you cannot do it all." Oy. What a basic misconstruction. Just because feminists have insisted that a woman can be or do anything she puts her mind to doesn't mean that the message is that all women have to be or do everything -- especially at once. Jed: "Your mother did." Liz: "No, Daddy, she didn't." She gives him a look he doesn't dare contradict. Jed admits, "There's no question we missed things. We all made sacrifices, but Elizabeth...when Annie and Gus watch you walk onto the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives...." Liz says, "I don't want my son to be a part of my entourage. A photo op is not his idea of...." She sighs and says firmly, looking him right in the eyes, "I don't want it." Her father asks, "Then why would you let Doug?" Well, maybe because spouses don't control each other? Maybe he wants it even more than she doesn't want it to happen? Did Jed ask Abby's permission before originally getting into politics? Even if he did, he sure as hell didn't when he decided to run for a second term. Liz replies, "Because he's my husband and he asked me to." Jed says nothing. Not a bad scene. It illustrates, once again, Jed's unwillingness to get too close to his children. He doesn't ever want to know too much about what's really bothering them or what's really going on with them; he just wants to believe that they're okay, preferably happy, and see them conform to his expectations of how they should act. He loves them, but he doesn't want to know about their pain, most especially if it's the result of any of his choices.