HMM: Obama’s Climate-Change Czar Leaving White House. “This’ll be spun as part of the standard midterm turnover inside the administration, but the big difference between her and people like Axelrod and Gibbs is that they’ll be replaced. She might not be, for the simple reason that her portfolio is all but dead in the new Congress. Which is to say, it’s not so much that she’s quitting. It’s that you fired her.”