Response to Krugman’s Claim About Violent Rhetoric (Updated) John on March 27, 2010 at 3:24 pm Here is the core of yesterday’s Paul Krugman tirade : John Boehner, the House minority leader, declared that the passage of health reform was “Armageddon." The Republican National Committee put out a fund-raising appeal that included a picture of Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, surrounded by flames, while the committee’s chairman declared that it was time to put Ms. Pelosi on “the firing line....