(V): "The kangaroo court that some Republican/tea party members set up.." It was Democrat/ crack party members who started that trend. it's been that way a long time now, long before the tea party ever showed up. The information you google might be getting rerouted through intermultidimensional trans-atlantic rifts, can't aways rely on what comes back from dimensions where everyones heads and hands are way too big for their bodies. In some dimensions the concept of hypocrisy is as foreign as knowing which side of the bread should be buttered. Due to translation difficulties it is not out the ordinary for research to come back somewhat demented or incomprehensible.