Even if Americans were paying $10 a gallon at the pump, Congressional Democrats would still oppose expanded domestic drilling. Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) objected to every trigger price up to and including the $10 mark during Senate proceedings today. Watch below:

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The GOP needs to own this issue. It needs to make sure that whenever Americans think “high gas prices”, they think about Democrats objecting to doing what most people want them to in order to resolve the crisis.

As Ed Morrissey points out, people in both California and Florida now support expanding our domestic drilling. Congressional Democrats, on the other hand, would rather you pay $10 a gallon…or more.