Boehner's detailed plans to bring down "Obamacare"

... One approach is to hold committee hearings that would expose the health-care law to a trial by oversight, so thoroughly revealing its flaws that Republicans could try for full repeal near the end of the session. Meanwhile, there would be revisions around the margins—a repeal, for example, of the much reviled requirement, tucked into the health-care bill, that businesses file 1099 forms for every contractual transaction over six hundred dollars. This is the approach that Boehner is believed to favor. The Tea Partiers want full repeal, now. ...

... One possible course for Boehner is to continue his recent parroting of Tea Party rhetoric, while working to adjust the new members, over time, to the realities of their limited legislative power, and of the risk in seeming too radical. He could talk of repealing “this monstrosity,” and of having “a lot of tricks up our sleeves,” knowing that even starving the health law of funds will be difficult to achieve legislatively, since Obama will have to sign funding bills.

Paul Ryan believes that Boehner will prove equal to the challenge. “He’s been around,” Ryan says. ...

... Boehner is aware of the heat from below, which is perhaps why, when I asked him whether he means to try the oversight route with health care or yield to the cry for full repeal, he replied, “All of the above.” ...Peter Boyer in the New Yorker