Washington's 'slippery sales pitch'

Even though Americans in recent months have given Congress an approval rating as low as 14 percent – with an accompanying "disapproval " rating of 80 percent – there still is reason not to throw out all of the nation's representatives.

So says the publisher of "Restoring the Republic: A Clear, Concise, and Colorful Blueprint for America's Future," by a California congressman whose "historical understanding, political philosophies and constitutional clarity recall that other great West Coast lawmaker – Ronald Reagan."

"When you tally up the dishearteningly high number of federal infringements against our individual liberties, it's easy to conclude that the entire power structure is hopelessly corrupt," said Joseph Farah, publisher and founder of WND Books. "But trust me, we still have elected officials who genuinely are committed to our country and bring great insight on how to rescue America from the ruin of this administration's actions. And Devin Nunes is one of them."

WND Books on Sept. 13 will publish Nunes' "Restoring the Republic: A Clear, Concise, and Colorful Blueprint for America's Future." Nunes is scheduled to appear that day on the Sean Hannity show about the book.

Elected to Congress in 2002 at age 29, the California Republican has demonstrated a strong streak of individualism and little fear of confrontation, says Farah. He's battled against granting government control over health care and helped guide the first successful – if fleeting – attempt to derail the bank bailouts.

"What's really too big to fail?" Nunes writes. "Our Republic is too big to fail. It has been too important, for too long, to too many people. Without it, the world would be darker and less free."

On the strength of Nunes' detailed personal anecdotes, "Restoring the Republic" escorts readers through the inner workings of Washington, even seating them at the bargaining table across from the influence-peddlers, spin doctors, money men and lobbyists.

Nunes recounts an encounter in 2008, in the moments following official announcements of the economy's precarious condition. Treasury Department representatives hit him with dire urgings that he vote for the bank relief bill or the nation would lapse into another Great Depression. He recalls this exchange:

"'If you can answer one question for me, I will support your bailout.'

"An impatient Treasury official snapped, 'What's the question, congressman?'

"I looked him in the eye and asked, 'When the government buys up these bad loans and takes ownership of empty houses in my district, who will mow the lawns?'

"The Treasury experts looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Clearly perturbed by the question, they confessed, 'We don’t know.'"

Nunes helped defeat the first TARP bill, but when Congress approved the second, he recoiled at the transfer of "unprecedented constitutional duties to the executive branch and paying nearly $1 trillion for the privilege," he writes

"It was almost beyond belief – a socialist renaissance not in Europe or the former Soviet states, but in America," states Nunes.

In Washington, such advances are accomplished through alliances that often buck public perception of the right-left political dynamic, he says.

"Democrats may be competing hard with Republicans to be the standard bearer for big business, but the truth is, big business doesn't care who's in charge, because it has successfully co-opted both parties," he writes. "…And notwithstanding leftist anti-corporate rhetoric, big business frequently teams up with radical leftwing groups, which can be bought off and even turned into allies."

This arrangement has given rise to a dangerous axis of entities whose respect for self-government and individual autonomy is historically poor, Nunes says.

"This is where the real threat to our Republic lies: the convergence of big government, big business, and the radical left in Washington," he says.

Nunes identifies the embodiment of this threat in the environmental lobby. Growing up on his family's dairy farm in Tulare County, California, he watched "first-hand the damage it has wreaked in my home state of California, from devastating man-made droughts to job-killing regulations."

Still, he recounts members of the Environmental Defense Fund – flanked by Hank Paulson, former Treasury Secretary under President George W. Bush – pushing him to support cap-and-trade legislation as a "market-based"solution to global warming.

"I was surprised," Nunes writes, "The guy assumed his slippery free-market sales pitch would convince me to support one of the most economically destructive proposals I've ever seen in Congress."

By contrast, says Farah, Nunes' own plan, outlined in "Restoring the Republic" is "highly constructive."

He offers solutions on ending the practice of redistricting, carried out "to protect incumbents, both Democrats and Republicans, from facing competitive elections," Nunes writes. "Gerrymandering, as this underhanded process is called, is a deliberate corruption of our political system."

He also gives an in-depth look at the fossil fuel sources of the world's leading nations and a detailed plan to maximize America's domestic oil supply. Nunes' historical context and unique solutions also address health care, Medicare and Social Security, tax reform, immigration, education and foreign policy.

"Restoring the Republic," says Nunes, is intended to galvanize his fellow countrymen and party members.

"This book is not intended as a defense of the Republican Party's recent actions; after all, it was a Republican administration that ushered in our new bailout culture," he writes. But he does hope to "renew the Republican Party, because Republicans are the only champions of limited government and individual freedom, even if the party doesn't always live up to its ideals."

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