She has her caucus more in lockstep with the White House than Boehner does with himself… In the House, there’s no way around it. Unless fiscal conservatives say, ‘All right, I see the greater strategy here,’ there is no way to do this without votes from Pelosi’s caucus.
— Republican strateguist Ford O’Connell, acknowledging that Nancy Pelosi appears to wield more power at present than John Boehner, the least-liked congressional leader according to numerous polls.