“If we don’t get stuff done, we’re f---ed"

“If we don’t get stuff done, we’re f—ed,” predicted a House GOP leadership aide. “We have two years to prove we have the answers. Harry Reid can’t stop us anymore. It’s on us now. If we’re smart about [how to control the House and Senate] we can peel off some Democrats and put bills on the president’s desk that he can’t afford to veto.”

Republicans have long scoffed at the president’s suggestions that the GOP is nothing more than an extreme band of obstructionists, pointing to the dozens of bills Reid, the Senate majority leader, has kept from the floor of the upper chamber.

Now Republicans are eager to unveil bills on tax reform, approving the Keystone XL pipeline and scrapping certain unpopular provisions of Obamacare, such as the tax on medical devices.