The head of the Judicial Committee has dreams of being president himself and manages to get a Constitutional Amendment that limits the president to a single term. After the nomination process, things cool off until later in the book when the constitutional crisis crops up.
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The president, Donald Vandercamp gets so pissed off with the head of Senate Judicial Committee (who nixed two very good candidates) that he nominated the highly popular TV judge, Pepper Cartwright. Buckley takes them to new heights when one of the fictional president’s nominees is dismissed because he didn’t like To Kill a Mockingbird when he was young. Supreme Courtship isn’t Christopher Buckley’s best book, but it’s still a fun read and it still does a great job of skewering our American absurdities.Įveryone who has paid any attention to politics in the last, oh, thirty years or so is well aware that supreme court nominations are contentions. The main crux of this novel is a constitutional crisis that you can see a mile off, though its very hard to see how everyone is going to get out of it. We want our government powerful, but not too powerful, etc. We want social programs but don’t want to pay for them. Roughly paraphrased, Americans seem to want things both ways. Great sci-fi novels reviewed: my top 10.There’s a great quote in this book, just past the halfway point, that sums up the entire message.20 excellent standalone mysteries and thrillers.If your taste runs more to genre fiction, check out: You might also be interested in My 17 favorite funny novels or Top 7 great popular novels reviewed on this site. In fact, you’ll find this and all the author’s other funny books reviewed at Christopher Buckley writes satirical novels that are very, very funny.
You’ll find God Is My Broker: A Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 7-1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth reviewed at Self-help gurus get their comeuppance from Christopher Buckley. Here, for example, is my review of one I loved, The Relic Master: An irreligious take on Catholic history. My review of Little Green Men is at Wondered where UFOs come from? Christopher Buckley has the answer. Over the years, I’ve spent many hours laughing over Christopher Buckley’s novels. On the whole, though, it’s not one of Buckley’s best. The novel is amusing and even hilarious at times. No reader will be surprised to learn that Pepper is, in fact, named to the Court. This is the set-up in Supreme Courtship, Christopher Buckley‘s satirical treatment of the U.S. The President is convinced the Senate won’t dare reject her nomination, given her sky-high Q rating. Now in her mid-thirties, Pepper is uncommonly facile with the English language-and uncommonly attractive. While searching for a bowling show on television over a weekend at Camp David, President Vanderdamp chances upon Pepper’s show and is immediately enchanted. Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley (2008) 305 pages (3 out of 5)Įnter Judge Perdita “Pepper” Cartwright, star of the top-rated reality TV show, Courtroom Six. About all that remains is to find someone who can gain the approval of the Senate for that Supreme Court slot. All he wants to do is move back home to Wapakoneta, Ohio, where he can go bowling as often as he wishes. In retaliation, the Senate has rejected the two eminently qualified jurists he nominated for an open seat on the Supreme Court.
Congress, and politicians of both parties, despise him, because he has vetoed every spending bill that reached his desk. Vanderdamp, has an approval rating barely above twenty. The President of the United States, Donald P.
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