Because of the Health Care Cloture vote which happened in the middle of the night, when thieves break in and rapists work their violence, it has forced me to look reality square in the eye. I have been a member of the Democratic Party for most of this decade. I even organized a campaign committee to run against John McCain as a Democrat. I thought it possible that in the future, I might represent the Democratic Party at an election. I certainly seem like a better ethnic and lifestyle dynamic for the Democrats. However, the 60 vote cloture motion clarified that for me.

You see, I have certain core political values. I figured that at least "some" Democrats shared those values. But the cloture vote illustrated to me quite brazenly that the National Democratic Party shares none of these values. When 60 Senators, and that's a lot of Senators, vote clearly against your own value system, on this many levels, it is very apparent that you are in the wrong party. 60 Senators is unanimity.

Here are some of the core values I am talking about.

1. The insurance mandate. I believe it not only is immoral to try and force someone at gunpoint to buy something, but that it is unconstitutional. The Democratic Party, through this cloture vote, demonstrated that not only do they not care about the morality of the situation, but that they do not care about the Constitution of the United States. And I can recall at least three women Senators, women that I thought had something on the ball, acting like full utter bimbos when confronted by the subject of unconstitutionality.

2. The abortion compromise. I have a core belief that abortion is morally the murder of children, 99% of the time. And though I resist having government thugs employed to try and defend this child's life, I certainly do not want the People to be forced to pay for abortions. The 60 Democrats, though, have no reservation about forcing taxpayers to support abortions, thereby forcing taxpayers opposed to abortion to do one of two things: engage in a full tax strike, refusing to pay all federal and state taxes which might be routed to this purpose, OR, pay it and share in the bloodguilt for these acts when they appear before the throne of God. The 60 Democrats unanimously say that that's "okay".

3. Medical rationing. They can deny it all they want, and they all do, but the Medicare cuts that they have placed in the bill all amount to de facto medical rationing to senior citizens. Now, I'm all for cutting the budget, something Obama has failed to do in any other area, and all for cutting even Medicare, but you must do it in such a way which provides an alternative. An example of an alternative, for example, would be to use a direct subsidy, voucher, or both, for insurers to be able to insure elderly patients, and letting the free market determine some of these costs. But no, the 60 Senators do not provide an alternative, except to "kill granny". Those aren't MY values. But they are the values of 60 Senators.

4. Pork barrel bribery. A lot of bribery had to be engaged in in order to get the final Senators on board for the cloture vote. Now, even if I'm a Senator who otherwise supported the bill, I'm going to step away from it at that point, and demand that these "bribes to other Senators" and special perks for certain states, be taken out of the bill or I will not vote for it.

5. A health care bill written by Big Pharma and Big Medicine. Come on, people. You have people of the Left like Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean telling you this. But 60 Senators of a single party support this. My God, listening to all the propaganda of the Left, you would think these 60 Senators belonged to the Republican Party.

Now these are just five examples among a myriad of examples. They represent things I could never do, would never do, as a Senator. But ALL 60 Senators of a single party did them. Did ALL of them. Tolerated ALL of them. Certainly if a single party rejects every one of the core values with unanimity, core values I believe in, which strike at the totality of all my values, I could never be a member of that party. Yet I am. So I have concluded that requires a "course correction" as they say in aviation.

Now, people are going to tell me, "But Liz, if you were a Senator, you would have done the same thing." Well, no I wouldn't. How do I know? Because I had planned to be a Senator and run for the office. Now, admittedly, under the current scenario, I would NOT have been the 60th vote but the 61st, since I would have been replacing John McCain, a Republican. But let's tweak history a little bit. Say, Norm Coleman beat Al Franken in that Minnesota race. Or Bobby Byrd or Daniel Inouye passed away and were not available for the cloture vote. Whereby then I would have been the 60th vote.

First of all, I state clearly and matter of factly. The abortion language has to be equivalent or more restrictive than the Stupak amendment. All unconstitutional mandates on the People and all unfunded mandates on the states have to be stricken. All new taxes in the bill have to be stricken. Then and ONLY then do I even THINK about voting for this thing. Oh yeah. One other thing.

If ANYONE from the Administration makes a threat to close one of MY bases, say, the Goldwater Range: what happens is this. I go on national television. I state that I want a congressional investigation of the matter, I want Holder to investigate the matter, and I want it either determined that this did not happen, or if it did, I want whoever threatened me and the people of Arizona drummed out of the Administration, perhaps even charged for extortion or treason. And I would say, "Mr. President, untill this is done, I will not vote for any of your initiatives, including this one. And if you will not investigate it, then you can kiss my ass. Because I do not tolerate being threatened."

THAT is what a Democratic Senator, or any Senator, should do. If even ONE of the 58 Democratic Senators did this, I would not be doing this. I would not be resigning from the Democratic Party. Even if they got a dreaded "RINO" to take the place of the rebel Democrats, I would still remain in the Democratic Party, because at least one, or two Senators, share my values. But evidently, none of them share my values. Accordingly, I must hereby resign.

Likely, I will join the Republican Party again, only because of one single man, Ron Paul. I'm not at all clear the Republicans exactly share my core values either. But at the very least, none of the 40 of them demonstrated that by voting for this monstrosity.

Deo Vindice,
Liz Michael