“What we’re asking is that they listen to their hearts, also start listening to their intellect and their brain,” Republican Iowa Congresswoman and schoolmarm-in-training Mariannette Miller-Meeks pleads to the members of the Temper Tantrum Caucus, making the leap that they do, actually, have brains before pivoting to the most lukewarm endorsement in history2. “And I would implore people in our districts to give us the concession that because we are here and we’re voting for Kevin McCarthy, there are reasons that we do so, that we think that he is the best person to be the Speaker at this time, and for them to trust in us that we know that.”