“What do we do now?”

So asks Bill McKay, the imaginary senator-elect from California played by Robert Redford in the 1972 film “The Candidate.” Republicans must have had similar thoughts after learning that they had achieved historic gains in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Republicans have already talked about several minor policy goals they believe would be politically impossible for President Obama to veto, such as repealing the Obamacare medical device tax. Although this is not a bad thing, voters across America did not send more Republicans to Washington to repeal a tax on medical devices. That is not an agenda, unless you are a lobbyist on K Street.