“There will be a time and a place for me to stand as a lone voice of dissension, but the vote for the speaker, is not that place,” Love said. “For me to be an effective congressman over the next two years it is important for me to be on the side of the elected speaker.”
That is a much more nuanced way to essentially say the same thing Otter told Flounder (re: Flounder's brother's car).
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