conway. the more you think about it the reason i think it s her. it makes sense. she s very cagey. she s the kind of person that would find out that mike pez used the word a lot. my guess, my educated guess is that the author of the new york times op-ed piece is john mccain s old friend, dan coates. lots of denials and speculation on who wrote that anonymous new york times op-ed that has the white house in its latest version of tatters. is the writer a pence booster or someone using the word lodestar to frame him. or someone from the press operation given the piece includes a quote. unusual for an op-ed. and almost reads like a press release. why did they include tax cuts but not immigration among the good things worth preserving? could that mean the writer has immigrant roots? it s fun and games to speculate, but in the white house not so