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Nancy Pelosi has to eat her words: Check and balances are not ‘euphemism for obstruction’

By Philip Wegmann

Published November 7, 2018 5:20am ET

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Nancy Pelosi has to eat her words: Check and balances are not ‘euphemism for obstruction’ — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California,smiles as she meets with reporters on Election Day at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in D.C. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

In 2016, when a Democrat was president, Nancy Pelosi said that checks and balances are “a euphemism for obstruction.”

In 2018, with a Republican president, Nancy Pelosi said that the midterm elections are about “restoring the constitutional checks and balances.”

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