There is only one logical explanation: Blackmail! Republican congressional critters are just as decadent as Rats and the Rats have the proof.
Precisely what I told DH last night...it’s not money, it’s blackmail!
Nope. They're believers.
They go to the same schools, study the same things, marry the same girls, have the same mistresses, live in the same townhouses in VA and DC, and all of them leave Congress multimillionaires.
The Republic is overthrown. What's happening now is just a show.