This populist argument may sound good, but it isn't true. Lots of stuff gets done, it just isn't stuff we like. Obamacare just got done - something the left has worked at since FDR was in office. The government took over the entire Student Loan program, another big ticket item the liberals wanted and succeeded at. A blizzard of new EPA regulations have been put in to effect which will begin putting the coal industry out of business. I mean, the list goes on and on here. It just isn't true that "nothing gets done". The problem is the left is winning and only their stuff is getting done.
Had we taken the Senate in 2010 or 2012, maybe we could have pushed some bills to Obama's desk and perhaps gotten a few things we want signed into law. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. We ran a bunch of crummy Senate candidates like O'Donnell, Angle, Akin, Mourdock, McMahon, etc, and they all lost.
And yet other TEA Party candidates won. On the whole, the TEA Party was far more successful in changing the makeup of Congress than anyone would have given them a chance in 2009, but then when they weren't perfect in all races, they get vilified by the same folks who brought us a House minority and filibuster-proof Senate minority.
When she says “nothing gets done”, she’s referring to the promises of cutting spending that we hear every election cycle, not saying nothing in general gets done.