So what if the governor of Alaska supports drilling in ANWR? And so what if he's a Democrat?
Because the rest of the party is against it and they are the ones making a stink over it with Dascle leading the way

An exerpt from
http://www.oilandgasreporter.com/stories/062002/anw_Plan_5050.shtml

Permission to explore in ANWR's coastal plain is included in the House version of the energy bill, but not the Senate version.

Daschle, head of the Senate's Democratic leadership, worked to block the amendment to the Senate version of the bill that would have allowed exploration

Murkowski noted that ANWR passed the House by a significant margin.

From:
http://www.oilandgasreporter.com/stories/050702/anw_provision_politics.shtml

Surveys in recent years have found that most Alaskans support drilling in the refuge.

If you've gone to the trouble of reading Hannity's blather, you've probably also read that ANWR probably won't yield enough oil to make it worth the trouble.

There's a smokescreen here, but it isn't necessarily from the Democrats... 
http://www.nrdc.org/land/wilderness/arctic.asp

I got a kick out of that link explaining our expanding need for oil over the next 50 years. I did notice the yeild but is this not unihabited land in the middle of nowhere? So:

The locals want the cash from the yield
The repubs want to explore for oil that will lessen or dependence on foreign oil
The dems want to protect the caribou in the middle of nowhere