Obama promises health care ‘milestones’; GOP vows ‘millstones’ instead

Michael Franc, vice president of government relations for Heritage, said the organization is in its “analytical critique stage,” on the law, still busily researching its full breadth and implications.

Heritage’s new 501(c)(4), Heritage Action for America, will focus on grassroots policy campaigns across the country, Franc said.

Holtz-Eakin’s “action tank”  is also affiliated with 527 group American Crossroads, pegged as a kind of “shadow RNC” that vows to pump over $50 million to Republican candidates. The money could help the GOP, especially because the RNC itself is raising far fewer dollars in the wake of a scandal over its expenditure at a bondage-themed nightclub where topless women dancers imitate lesbian sex acts.

On Capitol Hill, Majority Leader John Boehner is leading a “solutions group” to craft the alternative health care law Republicans hope to “replace” Obama’s health care law with.

The issue is complicated because while the GOP conference is united in its opposition to Obama’s law, it fractures on what its proposal should be. Conservatives would like more radical changes than the “lowest common denominator” bill, as one aide puts it, Boehner’s group has rallied around.

A small but vocal minority of House Republicans are also calling for the party to simply demand repeal of the law, rather than replacing it.

On the Senate side, Coburn and Sen. Mike Enzi (R-NV) are working on a significant, intellectually “meaty” rebuttal to the health care law. The effort will buttress more day-to-day efforts.

While the GOP ‘s political machinery is impressive, numerous sources tell the Daily Caller that there is not a significant amount of cooperation between its parts.

Republicans, though, say they are at a significant advantage since large majorities already oppose Obamacare.

Democrats and their vast apparatus are “swimming upstream” given the electorate’s discontent and the large majorities that oppose the health care law, Franc said. “It’s a major problem for them.”