Tammy Usher is as efficient a mid-level Washington bureaucrat in the Department of Transportation as bureaucracy allows her to be. She is confident that all in her life is going according to her plan. Unlike the many fools around her, she is certain that if a really good public works idea came her way she would know how to act to make sure it was accomplished. Then one day a really good idea actually does comes her way. Tammy finds her comfortably planned life upset as she navigates the twisting maze of the often overly complicated Washington insider world to try to get the new idea on the...