Far be it for me to defend Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress, but I have to say that if someone put a gun to my head and told me to support newly-minted Congressmoron Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s opposition to spending restraints proposed by the House Speaker and Pelosi’s “PAYGO” provision that requires that new spending be offset by matching cuts or increases in revenue, I’ll take the latter in a heartbeat. Because economics.