Actually I don’t look at their current silence as meaning they are in on the deal as much as trying to figure out how to respond with gravity enough to use this as another straw on the camel’s back to curtail nobamacare.
If they just came out screaming “It wasn’t me”, it’ll look like a guilty dog barking first.
As with many other DC political situations, this is a chess game not checkers.
I’d prefer my congressman deny complicity, and I’d like to see him say that he won’t accept it if offered.