House Majority Leader Eric Cantor stopped by the Heritage Foundation today to explain the GOP plan to slash government spending to 2008 levels -- and to make a fresh negative comparison between the current U.S. government and the evils of Europe.

The specter of the European bogeyman is classic Republican rhetoric, and a theme Cantor has raised on more than one occasion. Today, Cantor turned away from the classic terror tales of universal health care and government-funded social safety nets in favor of suggesting that unless American changes its ways soon, the country might catch the same disdain for capitalist success found across the pond.