Paul Ryan: How come the GOP isn't interested in my roadmap?

“I wanted to go out there, not necessarily saying I have all the answers. I wanted to put a plan out there, saying here’s how I would do it; please come up with your plan so that we can get the debate going,” Ryan said Thursday in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington. “Unfortunately when I jumped in the pool and asked others to jump in the pool, we haven’t had many folks swimming around.”…

Ryan hatched his plan in 2007 and proposed it in the final months of the presidency of George W. Bush.

“It became clear to me that we were just going to continue to hit each other as two political parties, where if you step out with anything bold, anything different, anything remotely considered politically risky, you will be beat up and lose and nobody will follow you, and you will come for an impasse,” Ryan said. “That’s where our politics have been for a long time.”

“I do not believe that these are ultra-conservative reforms,” Ryan continued. “I think they are practical, common sense things.”