Podesta just wrapped up a major, six-week project to influence media coverage of fly ash and language affecting its regulation in the transportation bill. It was an uphill battle. Environmental groups had been working on the issue for months – years, even – and had done a reasonably good job convincing the press to describe fly ash as “toxic” or “hazardous.”
In announcing his resignation from the House of Representatives earlier this month, Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) quoted Bob Dylan's farewell song, “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.”
Luckily, Rep. McCotter wasn’t asked to apply other iconic songs to Congress on his way out the door. Otherwise, he might have hit the congressional defense committees with another classic Dylan line: “For the times, they are a-changin’.”