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Nancy Pelosi: ‘The Tea Party Empowers’ Dems

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tells Politico the “Tea Party empowers us.” But what she means is that former Speaker John Boehner was so weak, his failure to craft and submit legislation a majority of Republicans could back often put Pelosi in the position of calling the shots in the House.