Nancy, next time break the Prozac in half.
Via PJ Media:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) today took a guess that Vice President Mike Pence authored the anonymous New York Times op-ed against his boss, while House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said he has no intention of deploying Congress to help the White House sniff out the author.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), meanwhile, advised President Trump to start giving lie detector tests throughout the administration.
“Many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations,” the author wrote in the Wednesday piece.
The anonymous author said that similar-minded officials within the administration are “trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t,” like making sure a reticent president implemented mandatory sanctions on Russia for an assassination attempt with the Novichok nerve agent on British soil that killed one woman.
“This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state,” the author states. “It’s the work of the steady state.”
The NYT only refers to the writer as “a senior official in the Trump administration,” but a tweet from the NYT referred to the writer as “he.”
“The tweet was drafted by someone who is not aware of the author’s identity, including the gender, so the use of ‘he’ was an error,” Danielle Rhoades Ha said afterward.
Because the op-ed uses the word “lodestar,” speculation turned to Pence as he uses the word often in speeches.[…]
Pelosi was asked about the op-ed at her weekly news conference today, and said that “Republicans in Congress have enabled so much of the mayhem that exists in the White House to occur without any comment.”
“The president has to know that when a president speaks, his words weigh a ton. So if some in the White House think correcting this behind the scenes is a consolation, I don’t think it’s good enough,” she said. “The interesting — because I’ve never known the New York Times — perhaps you have — to go without a source. So this is interesting, what the president’s saying is treason is again a manifestation of his instability.”
Pelosi mused about “who wrote it, who has denied it already.”
“The vice president — that was my first thought,” she said. “Then Coats, Pompeo, they denied that they had written it. I guess by process of elimination, it’ll come down to the butler.”