"I have no idea what she was thinking,'' one veteran member of Congress and strong Pelosi supporter said just out of earshot of the television cameras, which jammed the hallway outside the Cannon Caucus Room where Democrats had just overwhelmingly endorsed Steny Hoyer to be their new majority leader over Pelosi's objections.

"This was a lose-lose scenario for her,'' the lawmaker said."

And I was worried it would get boring now that the Democrats were in charge.