by privatizing it and replacing it with vouchers. he also called for privatizing social security. that was 2008. in 2010, paul ryan tried again. a new version of his road map, and a splashy new website to launch it. guess what was still in the plan? a medicare overhaul that the wall street journal of all papers accused of ending medicare as we know it. privatizing medicare, replacing it with vouchers. that, of course, became an effective political weapon for democrats, at least the ones who chose to wield it in the 2010 midterm election. in april of last year, ryan changed the title of the plan, he dumped the road map name and went with something maybe a little slower. this is not a road map but a path to prosperity. it was only in this brand new version, the 2011 version of the plan, that he finally dropped the idea of privatizing social security. he kept the partial privatization of medicare. he said to ryan lizza of the new yorker he had to compromise. his original road map idea, quote, was just me unplugged.