Rep. Mike Pence Offers a Warning

Although I don't want him giving too much advice to the Dems:

Democrats will pay at the polls for their vote in favor of a sweeping health care reform package Saturday night, a top House Republican warned, while Democrats cheered the bill's narrow approval as a historic achievement.

Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., chairman of the House Republican Conference, told "Fox News Sunday" that the vote proved Democrats have not listened to American concerns about over-spending, bailouts and government takeovers.

"The message from last night is that the Democrats didn't get the message in August or last Tuesday," Pence said, referring to the town hall meetings over the summer where members of the public protested the plan and last Tuesday's election where Democrats lost two big governor's races.

"I think the American people are deeply frustrated with a liberal establishment in Washington, D.C. that is ignoring their will," Pence said. "If Democrats keep ignoring the American people, their party's going to be history in about a year."

Pence said Republicans were booted out of Congress in 2006 and 2008 after being hammered for over-spending, and predicted the same could happen to Democrats in the 2010 congressional elections.

Other prominent Republicans on Sunday joined Pence in arguing that Saturday's vote proves Democrats are out of touch. Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele said the House bill allows the government to take over health care even though Americans don't want the government in charge.

"The Democratic Party had better pay attention to what the people out here are saying," Steele said. "You can no longer dismiss people by sitting on your cell phone when they're talking to you or calling them un-American or making them feel like you don't give a heck about what they're concerns are. That's what the voters laid on the table this year."

Democrat leaders are still trying to portray the Tea Party movement as fake outrage, drummed up by GOP leaders. Last Tuesday elections in Virginia and New Jersey proved that theory wrong. There's real outrage out there, and the Obamacare vote didn't do anything to make it go away.