House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., declared on Tuesday that Republicans needed to “go bold,” and he vowed that his new budget proposal wouldn’t be a step backwards from his ambitious plan that became the target of Democratic attacks last year.

At the same time, he indicated that he didn’t see much of a difference between his Medicare reform proposal that the House passed last year and another proposal he introduced with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon. Many conservatives (including myself) viewed Ryan-Wyden as a significant concession.