It Looks Like a President, Only Smaller
"It Looks Like a President Only Smaller" is the hilarious, eviscerating diary of one of the most amazing contests in American political history — from the presidential primaries in New Hampshire, to the fat-cat convention parties in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, to the bizarre vote-counting debacle in Florida. The diarist is a veteran "Washington Post" reporter, satirist, and explainer of the inexplicable. This is his summary of the historic Supreme Court decision in "Bush v. Gore: " "In keeping with the Court's ambition to provide an unambiguous and unanimous decision in Bush v. Gore and thereby legitimate the outcome of the 2000 presidential election, we present herein a majority opinion signed by Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor, and Kennedy, with a partial dissent to the majority by Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas, a full dissent by Justices Stevens, Souter, Breyer, and Ginsburg, a partial dissent to the full dissent by Justices Breyer and Souter, a needling, invective-filled dissent to the partial dissent to the majority opinion from Scalia, and a spitwad [attached] from Justice Stevens...The Court will note that it did manage on Tuesday afternoon to assemble a respectable 6-3 majority in favor of the Chinese take-out."
As Joel Achenbach trails Campaign 2000, he channels the unfocused rage of the street protesters, gleefully infiltrates celebrity-choked Hollywood bashes, and roams the remote highways of the battleground states. Whether ruminating on the Confederate flag controversy in South Carolina, rewriting breaking news in the form of a le Carre novel, or mimicking the dyspeptic voice of the editor of the (fictional) newsletter "Chad Watch, "Achenbach fashions a page-turning comedy that takes the measure of America at the millennium.
- Author
- Joel Achenbach
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780743223485
- Genres
- politics, history, humor
- Release date
- 2001
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