Stop the Presses: President Obama Wants More Drilling In Alaska -- Interior Secretary Salazar

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar came to Anchorage on Monday and said the Obama administration supports more oil drilling in Alaska, potentially including offshore Arctic development.

Salazar joined Alaska Sen. Mark Begich and Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, both Democrats, for a meeting with Alaska businesspeople and said the president's feeling toward Arctic offshore drilling is "Let's take a look at what's up there and see what it is we can develop."

Oh, I knew it was too good to be true. This is a summary of the rest of his remarks:

But any Arctic oil development must be done carefully, he said. Salazar said the Arctic lacks needed infrastructure for responding to potential offshore oil spills and cited painful lessons from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.  

That's the end of that discussion. The permitorium lives on. Let's see. The Gulf spill was more than a year ago and we all now how that worked out.