Don't be too quick to dismiss 'Beltway insiders'
"Fishermen, sharpen your hooks, bring out the cheese balls and grease your bicycles. Soon there's going to be trout fishing inside the Beltway."
That's the first time the phrase "inside the Beltway" -- meaning, in this instance, the physical realm within the I-495 ring road that surrounds Washington, D.C. -- appeared in the Washington Post, the official Beltway paper. It showed up in a 1977 story about stocking the Anacostia
