A frustrated Republican congresswoman on Monday issued a threat to resign her seat in a melodramatic fashion in which she cast herself as the lone would-be savior of the American republic.
In a statement flagged by Punchbowl News' Max Cohen, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN), who has for weeks been sparring with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), said that she will "consider resigning Congress if no debt commission" gets passed this year to rein in the United States' ever-present fiscal deficits.
"I've done many very difficult things being one woman standing many times with many long hours and personal sacrifices, but there is a limitation to human capacity," she declared before listing her demands to create a debt commission.
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She concluded her message by saying that she "will not continue sacrificing my children for this circus with a complete absence of leadership vision, and spine" and then added, "I cannot save this Republic alone."
This is not the first time that Spartz has taken aim at McCarthy over the debt commission, as two weeks ago she said that "it is a shame that our weak Speaker cannot even commit to having a commission to discuss our looming fiscal catastrophe" while further declaring that “our founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves to see how this institution is betraying our Republic for personal political ambitions and our children will be ashamed of another worthless Congress.”
