You left out the most important part! They get paid to do NOTHING if they’re not in power. They just occasionally vote to try to obstruct something, then tell their constituents “See, we voted against it, but the dems have the majority so there was nothing we could do to stop it. Now, please donate $5 to help us win the next election so that we can REALLY help you next time.”
To them, the absolute WORST case scenario would be for them to have the presidency, and RINO-proof majorities in the senate, and the supreme court. As they don’t believe in the policies that their constituents want, they just want to get along, and get invited to the parties where the insider stock info is given out. If such a thing were ever to happen, they’d have to let the dems pass some law that every word of every bill has to be read on the floor before any vote. So that they could get away with only passing 6 bills before the next election, and those would be budget bills, and BS that no one cares about. “We vote to declare May 25th Captain Amanda Bricker day in recognition of her outstanding performance in something insignificant”.