You wouldn't think that the governor of Texas, the most conservative of the viable candidates in the Republican presidential field, would want to make the United States more like Europe. Unless, of course, you have read Rick Perry's book.
"Fed Up," Perry's 2010 cri de coeur (yes, that's French), can be summed up in one sentence: The federal government is unconstitutional.
Not all of it, of course, just most of it. In particular, the parts that include Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, education policy, banking regulations, environmental protection, gun control and a few other things I'm doubtlessly forgetting. And he doesn't mince words on the subject. Social Security, Perry writes, is an example of the federal government's "violently tossing aside any respect for our founding principles of federalism and limited government."