House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested she would make her future plans known on Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill.
Pelosi, the first woman to ever serve as speaker of the House, answered a question about her intention to remain as House minority leader by inviting reporters to gather for a press conference tomorrow morning.
"I'll see you right here, 10 o'clock, tomorrow morning," she said. That would allow her to first confer with fellow Democrats.
The 72-year-old California Democrat served as speaker for two full terms, but remained as Democrats' leader in the House following Republicans' takeover of the chamber during the 2010 midterm elections.
Pelosi had scheduled leadership elections for a date slightly later than usual, prompting speculation that she might relinquish her role as the top Democrat in the House -- a position she has held for a decade. Wednesday marks the 10 year anniversary of her ascension to that position.
Her tenure was most memorably defined by her tenure as speaker during the first two years of President Barack Obama's first term, during which time Pelosi helped shepherd Obama's landmark health care reform law to passage.
Pelosi's departure could set off a tough battle between House Democrats to replace her. Among the candidates could be her No. 2, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) or Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) -- among others.


I hope she will keep her position. She has always been so offensive it always helps the Republicans. She is absolutely the worst.
That's why we won and you lost big
Here's to hoping she steps down. She resembles a clown in every way. Did she really think that face-lift went well?
Any person with this much political power who abuses it should be lynched. She put down a bill to keep American Samoans from getting a minimum wage hike( you unions slugs see this ) because it would cost her billionaire husband money from paying his plantation workers a living wage. all you libertards kept ranting about Romneys money. Reid and pelosi have 4 times as much. 7 of the 10 top politicans are democrats, not republicans. So much for your rantings that republicans only care for the rich. Why isnt congress or the senate or obumbo using obamacare? they dont want the @!$%#. this country is going to hell because of the dems giveaway programs. they have broken the back of the working American. a disabled USMC vietnam combat vet
She and her husband have raped American tax payers for billions of dollars and she was able to squash any and all investigations into her activities.
My Brother Gunny:
Both Pelosi and people like Sen. Kerry, don't want minimum wages or deportation of illegal aliens, because it would reduce the profit margin. Pelosi is DelMonte and Kerry married into the Heinz corporation.
They demonized Romney for being a millionaire--when he worked for it. Yet, Pelosi inherited it and Kerry married it.
Barney Franke is worth millions and look how he and Chris Dodd(another crooked millionaire) screwed us. And, Chris Dodd was one step ahead of federal indictments. His father was indicted. The nut didn't fall far from the tree.
And, you are so right about the ratio of millionaires on the hill being heavily on the democrats' side. Further, when it looked like Obama might be elected in 2008, the dems moved very quickly to diversify their asssets offshore. The Republicans commented on this and any investigations that were requested, were squashed when Obama took office.
I don't care whether people are democrats or republicans, our government is sick and we need to take it back.
Semper Fi, Da Gunny
I'm just hoping the old sow retires and spends her days with her grandchildren.
Nancy is magic - kind of like Disney or Harry Potter. Nancy and her Husband have made hundreds of millions of dollars bilking her constituents. She represents the evil side of the 1%
oh, dont forget the bitch turned her nose up at a 35 seat A/C to fly her ugly ass back and forth to calif. She had to have a 200 seat A/C at a cost of 5 million each way .what a joke the democratic party is , hell both parties are for themselves, they both screw the American worker. ASk why obama is buying millions of hollow point rounds for his huricane relief army equipped with bradley fighting vehicles. anarchy is comming , get ready
Some posts compare Pelosi with Hilary Clinton. Hilary Clinton is a smart, good woman. Pelosi - look at your state - it ought to make you weep. Please go and on the way out - please pay for all of those trips across country on a private jet acoompanied by your spouse, children, and grandchildren eating expensive, catered food with expensive drinks. You have made a fortune off the backs of other people and ought to be ashamed of yourself and you owe the American taxpayer an apology and a large sum of money-you are truly leaving in disgrace and President Obama knows this - that is why you were nowhere on the campaign trail. On your way out - take the Obamacare package w/ you - you can find time to read it now. I compare you to Marie Antoinette and Imelda Marcos.
Try learning how to spell. You probably had trouble voting.
With a little hope maybe the ugly cow will retire and volunteer a a scarecrow for some farmer.
Nancy, if you do retire your post, my vote will be for Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Republicans will have a fight on their hands with her running the minority.
she is 1 worthless piece of work, how she got where she is is beyone me
A democrat that is way way past her expiration date, every
time she opened her mouth something terrible came out. Go democrats, glad to see
her go.
what happened? did she finally realize how bad she is for the country? or maybe how out of touch she is? or maybe she saw hereslef on TV and realized how stupid she sounds? either way or whatever it takes to get the wicked witch out of office
Nancy -- pLEASE LEAVE very fast and take Obama with you - Perm vacation in Mexico...
4 more years GO OBAMA
4 more years
To: President Barack Obama -
Treasonous Over Benghaz,
OBAMA Beyond impeachment, Obama treasonous over Benghaz, When you put your own reelection above the good of your country and the lives of its citizens? If so, Barack Obama committed treason in leaving the four Americans to die in Benghazi.
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Our Constitution defines it this way: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” Aid and comfort to the enemy — what is that? Your Spineless,
Re election is two words, Private
Several
Conservatives have been sounding the alarm about Mr. Obama’s creeping
dictatorship. His latest attempts at “Trickle Down Tyranny,” because of
the administration’s rampant corruption and numerous abuses of power.
It has one
overarching, central theme: Mr. Obama is a radical leftist carrying out a
Venezuela-style revolution. The
president is a “fiscal Marxist” and a “new Hugo Chavez” determined to dismantle
American capitalism and constitutional democracy.
Mr. Obama’s power
grabs - Obamacare, the Dodd-Frank financial reform, the de facto
nationalization of General Motors and Chrysler, the drive to create a “green
economy” through administrative fiat, the numerous policy “czars” who have
Cabinet-level powers but no accountability or congressional oversight, the
National Defense Authorization Act, which enables the president to detain any
U.S. citizen indefinitely under suspicion of being a “terrorist,” the push to
censor the Internet, the illegal war in Libya, the massive expansion of
government through out-of-control spending and record deficits, and the
administration’s criminal involvement in gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels.
According to some
experts; Mr. Obama’s aim in the U.S. is similar to Bolshevik leader Vladimir
Lenin in Russia: to create the Union of Socialist States of America - the
U.S.S.A. The president is a Leninist bent on forging a new world order based on
economic collectivism, world government and an internationalist ruling class.
The key to achieving his dream is to eradicate the American nation. Obama is destroying the US concepts of
“language, borders and culture.” The ultra-left’s mission is not only an
economic revolution, but a cultural one: transforming America into a bilingual,
multicultural socialist empire. The Illegals
are the underpinning destruction if the USA where the battering ram is massive,
unlimited immigration, thereby smashing our historic and demographic core.
Such profound
social engineering requires state coercion and centralized rule. We must be
compelled to abandon self-government in favor of soft tyranny. This is why our
freedoms may vanish in a second Obama term: “We will very likely not survive as
a free nation after four more years under Obama’s rule”
Mr. Obama is a
dangerous demagogue, who believes he is above the law. Like many leftists, he
is obsessed with amassing power. His amnesty order marks a major step toward an
arbitrary statist regime that willfully tramples on the Constitution. The
U.S.S.A. is being born.
Unfortunate if she steps down, I'll have to change the face on my dartboard.
Good riddance! Can't happen soon enough.
She has been OUTSTANDING in keeping those GOP and Tea Baggers in their respective places. Thank you so much Nancy for what you have accomplished in helping the Commander in Chief in getting his agenda through the House. Our hats are off to you for your fearless and tireless efforts to help our Commander in Chief to make this a better country. Job well done Nancy. Someday, a statue of you will be erected on Capoitol Hill in recognition as the most effective House Speaker since Tip Oneal.
Well said
what a complete crock of @!$%#
Most bad government has grown out of too much
government.-Thomas Jefferson
Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so
sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates
so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any
political institution which is founded on it. John Adams
When
the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears
the people, there is liberty.Thomas Jefferson:
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
in government Thomas Jefferson
"We,
the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to
overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the
Constitution." Abraham Lincoln
We the People have a Constitutional duty to alter or abolish
a government which has become tyrannical. First we have to recognize that we
live under a tyranny. It is no doubt in my mind that we do as evidenced by the
amount of power that the federal government holds over the States and the
individual. When that government prevents the People from electing anyone
outside their sphere of influence or control, we do not have the freedom to
control our own destiny as a People. " Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations. Pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design
to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty, to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards for their future security". Thomas
Jefferson (Annals of America,
2:447-48.)
"The
money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in
times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than
autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies,
all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great
enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the
two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.. corporations have been enthroned
and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of
the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices
of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the
Republic is destroyed. Abraham Lincoln
The majority of the public spoke you lost accept it. Stop Whining, go in the corner and sit facing the wall till you come to your senses.
Nancy Pelosi really inspires me with her energy and smile.
Good ridance. Hopefully none of her replacements will come from her mold and maybe some fresh blood with an interest towards functioning government will replace her as opposed to a continuation of the political divide. Dream on Billy-boy.
I agree Bone. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
You Republicans are still pissed about election day. Congress has to compromise, but the party members don't. Four more years of BITCHING. NAG, NAG, NAG you people sound like an unhappy house wife. HMMM!
And Fiesty Redhead, I have read your inane posts' for some time now. I really hope you get the government you voted for, because you deserve it.
ATCS; Remember you will have the same government.
We all deserve it.
fasttime get back in your welfare line
Life long Democrat I am and it would seem like the Democratic Party should had learned after they squandered a golden oppertunity to get things done in this nation that what is wrong in the Party is Pelosi is definitely not the answer to our problems but rather a Huge problem for the party.