Alaska Republicans Go Ballistic on Obama After ANWR Decision
The president's move to protect more of the refuge from oil drilling has Republican officials in the state fighting mad.
Photograph: Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesDavid Knowles
Those are fighting words.
President Barack Obama's decision to ask Congress to designate parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a wilderness area, putting the land off-limits for oil drilling, is not going over well with Republicans in the state, to say the least.