And by work she means destroying the country.

Via Roll Call:

Think the spate of retirement announcements from senior House Democrats is going to drive Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi out of office?

Think again.

“I’m running,” the California Democrat said in a statement forwarded to reporters by her office on Wednesday afternoon. “I’ve already started the paperwork process. My work is not finished.”

The statement appears to be an effort to tamp down efforts to read too deeply into decisions by two of Pelosi’s closest allies and fellow Californians — first George Miller and now Henry A. Waxman — to leave at the end of this year.