Imagine if a minister in Justin Trudeau's cabinet made a mild joke about house dysfunction due to the republicans. Within an hour - if not minutes - house republicans would be tweeting for his execution. And if a reporter stopped one of them in the hallway to ask them if they were joking - they'd say "I wasn't joking. We've got Predator drones. We should use one to take him out. He can't criticize us. He can't criticize the United States of America. He's not allowed."