Somewhere in this brilliant, hilarious, impossible-to-put-down-to say nothing of moderately priced-new book of mine, the narrator notes that appointing a Supreme Court justice is pretty much the most consequential thing a president can do, short of declaring nuclear war more to the point, that this fact is generally pointed out every four years by whoever is running second in the presidential election.
Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. Will Pepper, a vivacious Texan, survive a Senate confirmation battle? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill a Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the nerve to reject her-Judge Pepper Cartwright, star of the nation's most popular reality show. President Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees onto the Supreme Court.
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I talked to Buckley a couple of weeks ago on my radio program on KPCC, and he was stupefied by the parallels - ``I hereby announce my resignation from satire.’’ His Pepper Cartwright is ‘’exactly like Sarah Palin,’’ he said, except Cartwright knows more.In bestselling author Christopher Buckley's hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America's most popular TV judge to the Supreme Court.
She doesn’t address case law and precedent but she does talk about her granddaddy and the back-to-school sale at Wal-Mart and throwing out Texanisms like ‘It’s your rodeo.’ She gets confirmed. At Cartwright’s confirmation hearing, he gets completely blindsided and steamrollered and flummoxed by her folksiness. In Buckley’s book, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee is a character unmistakably Biden. Pepper Cartwright’s fictional confirmation hearing is worth noting as we approach the Joe Biden-Sarah Palin debate. Remember, it’s satire I’m still talking here. Pepper doesn’t know squat about Constitutional law, but she’s sassy and spunky and down home, and that’s all it takes to win the Senate’s votes. A sullen president who hates his job and just wants to go home to bowl sees her one night on TV, and nominates her to the Supreme Court. The day after I hit the ‘’send’’ button on my Los Angeles Times book review of Christopher Buckley’s latest novel of political satire, John McCain put Sarah Palin on his ticket.How was I to know? How did Buckley know? The main character in ``Supreme Courtship’’ is Pepper Cartwright, a hottie in judicial robes, a glasses-wearing, gun-slinging TV judge - a Maxim magazine version of Judge Judy. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.
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