Threats of violence directed at Trumpkins? "Unhinged". Threats directed at Democrats? Crickets.

Gotta love shameless hypocrisy.

From The Hill, via Yahoo! -

Johnson on threats against Trump nominees: ‘This is dangerous and unhinged’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday the threats against President-elect Trump’s nominees and appointees are “dangerous and unhinged” and called on President Biden and other Democratic Party leaders to condemn the incidents.

“This year, there was not just one but TWO assassination attempts on President Trump,” Johnson said in a Wednesday post on social platform X, referring to a shooting during a Pennsylvania rally over the summer when Trump’s ear was grazed with a bullet and another incident at his Florida golf club where agents thwarted an apparent attempt on his life before shots were fired.

“Now some of his Cabinet nominees and their families are facing bomb threats,” he continued. “This is dangerous and unhinged. It is not who we are in America,”

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the U.S. House, voiced a slightly different attitude.

From Politico -

Jeffries office: Bomb threats made against Dem lawmakers ‘unacceptable’

The office of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounced Thanksgiving Day threats made against Democratic members of Congress that ranged from “detailed threats of a pipe bomb placed in mailboxes to swatting.”

Each of the threats was “signed with ‘MAGA’ at the conclusion of the message,” the minority leader’s office said in a statement on Friday.

That makes it sound as if he was as bad a human being as Johnson.  Except he went on.

From the same article -

"Threats of violence against elected officials are unacceptable, unconscionable and have no place in a civilized society,” the statement from Jeffries’ office said. “All perpetrators of political violence directed at any party must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”

Leader Jeffries' full statement is here,  Johnson?  Nada.  He seems to find political violence and threats of the same acceptable...if the recipients are Democrats.

People are dying in Israel and the US federal government is about to stop paying its debts. So the House GOP is running an ideological purity test.

And they've deemed that the person best suited to drive their clown car is someone with a track record of looking the other way at sexual predators. 

From KATU (OR) -

Speaker-designate Jim Jordan seeks to schedule election vote on Tuesday, despite lack of full House GOP support

Rep. Jim Jordan, the designated candidate for Speaker of the House by the House Republican Caucus, is attempting to force a vote in the speaker election Tuesday, according to multiple sources.

Jordan, a hard-right conservative Republican that serves as the chair of the House Judiciary Committee and was the first chair of the House Freedom Caucus, was voted by a majority of his fellow House Republicans to be their pick for the speakership Friday after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise wit8reallyhdrew his name from the race Thursday night.

He *really* wants the gig, maybe to the point of waging a "scorched earth" campaign for it.

From Politico -

Will Jim Jordan bully his way to the speakership?

Back in September 2016, Rep. Jim Jordan was on a crusade: He wanted the House to launch impeachment proceedings against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen over allegations that the agency had targeted conservatives.

But Jordan (R-Ohio) had a problem: GOP party leaders saw impeachment as a political loser and refused to even haul Koskinen in for questioning.Jordan wasn’t about to back down, however. He cornered then-House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) on the House floor and presented him with a choice: Either you summon Koskinen to the Hill or the Freedom Caucus forces a vote on his impeachment a few weeks before Election Day.

Jordan got his hearing.

That is one of many instances where the Ohio Republican used hardline tactics — or what some of his colleagues would call bullying — to get his way. He was so good at it, in fact, that POLITICO dubbed him the “other speaker of the House” at the time.

Jordan has his critics within the GOP caucus but he and his supporters plan to coerce/force his detractors into supporting him.

From The Hill -

Crenshaw says pressure campaign by Jordan is ‘dumbest way’ to support GOP nominee for Speaker

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) blasted some of his fellow Republicans for planning an online pressure campaign on behalf of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), saying that they will not get more votes backing him that way.

“So what I would really recommend to Jordan’s allies too, is a lot of them have mounted this high-pressure campaign,” Crenshaw said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “They’re going to whip up Twitter against the people who are against Jordan.”

Crenshaw is pretty extreme himself but may be what passes for a decent human being in the modern GOP.

The Democrats is Congress are not the party of chaos.

However, they're not going to bail the Rs out of a mess of their own making.

Also from The Hill -

Jeffries suggests Dems won’t help nominate ‘extremist extraordinaire’ Jordan as Speaker

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Friday reiterated the need for bipartisanship amid the race for Speaker — but suggested the Republicans’ most recent choice wasn’t the answer.

House Republicans delivered Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) the second GOP nomination for the leadership role on Friday — a day after first choice and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) withdrew from the race.

The way that I see it, there are two possible ways for Democrats to vote in favor of a speaker candidate.

1. Gym Jordan (or whichever extremist will be nominated by the R caucus after him) stands in the well of the House and publicly kisses the butt of any Democrat who pledges to vote for him.  Or, if that doesn't happen (and it won't)

2.  Get behind Hakeem Jeffries, as in a few of the Republicans and all of the Democrats vote to make him Speaker.  While the Rs wouldn't like him, but they'd all dislike him, and the Rs are unable/unwilling to find someone they all like.

Dislike seems to be the best solution.