I believe the initial reports of Obama’s snooping on Congresscxritters was the smoking gun - he collected dirt on our congresscritters and imobilized them = they will do what ever he wants and make it sound like it’s in our best interests.
Excellent point: you can tell on both sides of the aisle who has blackmail facing them, and those who DON’T.
SOME members are compromised and some are fighting like hell.
Coincidentally it is TEA who is fighting like hell.
RINOs are just trying not to get sucked out of the plane.