Sarah Palin Demands Hardball Regulations and a Takeover of BP

Here's the centerpiece of what she wrote:

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

I can only assume she was suggesting that "we must!" regulate and drill. For the record, we're already drilling offshore, so enough of this hackish "drill, baby, drill" screeching. There are already 3,858 oil and gas platforms operating in the Gulf of Mexico alone, according to NOAA. Here's a convenient map with yellow dots indicating all of the locations where we're already, you know, drilling, baby, drilling:



Sarah wrote that she supports "playing hardball with Big Oil" and praised her former "administration's efforts in holding Big Oil accountable to operate ethically and responsibly." So let's hear it then. I want to know specifically what Sarah Palin supports in terms of new regulations.

In her Facebook entry, she demanded:

Mr. President: with all due respect, you have to get involved, sir. The priorities and timeline of an oil company are not the same as the public's. You cannot outsource the cleanup and the responsibility and the trust to BP and expect that the legitimate interests of Americans adversely affected by this spill will somehow be met.

In this paragraph, she makes it abundantly clear that she supports government intervention in the free market.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/sarah-palin-demands-hardb_b_606774.html

but this is the most coherent thing I've ever heard her say.

Ms. Palin also advised the president to meet with people from Alaska's Department of Natural Resources, and added with a flourish, "Or, what the heck, give me a call."


In the incredibly unlikely event that Mr. Obama did give Ms. Palin a call, the conversation wouldn't impact the Gulf spill outcome any more than if Mr. Obama talked to beleaguered Tony Hayward, who just wants to get his life back, as Ms. Palin did when she resigned from her job as governor of the big oil state Alaska.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20007194-503544.html

The only free market Palin cares about is the marketing of her own brand.

but the last time someone tried that, the CIA overthrew the local democratically elected government (and look how well that turned out in the long run). Just saying.

that's not a republican position