Audiobooks: Supreme Courtship is supremely funny
What if Sarah Palin had been really smart in addition to being really good-looking and really popular?
Christopher Buckley's new book, Supreme Courtship, arrived in bookstores just days after the Alaska governor had been selected to be John McCain's vice presidential running mate, making him seem almost prescient.
In this supremely funny book, the president chooses a gorgeous, plain-spoken Texan TV show judge to be his nominee to the Supreme Court - just to spite the ego-maniacal senator who wanted the job for himself.
And we are off to the races.
Pepper Cartwright is a smart lawyer and was a good (real) judge, has the No. 1 rated show on television - and America loves her. It is her "numbers" against the terrible approval ratings of the president and Congress, and guess who wins?
Buckley is known for his farces lampooning Washington institutions, such as the tobacco lobby, (Thank You for Smoking) and social security reform (Boomsday), and this one is as on target as any.
But it is read by Anne Heche, a performer who brings a lot of People magazine baggage with her. And although her characterizations, especially of Pepper Cartwright, are spot on, I keep thinking of her as the women who dumped Ellen DeGeneres for a guy.
While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, 
