Ryan’s Deficit-Cutting Ideas Too Bold for Republicans

Paul Ryan, the U.S. House budget chief, rejected President Barack Obama’s efforts to tame government spending as not enough. As Ryan drafts a Republican alternative, he’ll have to reject his own ideas as too much.

Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future,” a long-term proposal for dealing with the nation’s deficit that he introduced long before taking the helm of the budget committee last month, would cut deep into health programs for the elderly and disabled -- the biggest drivers of federal spending -- and partially privatize Social Security.