You may want to sit down for this one. Sarah Palin is actually lecturing Barack Obama on HOW to deal with BP! No I am NOT kidding!

(Hat tip to the Facebook page "Stop the oil spill by stuffing BP executives into the leaking pipe" for the picture)

Once again Sarah has written a well thought out and reasoned treatise in a major magazine examining all of the pros and cons of Obama's handling of the oil spill and coming up with an insightful response.

Just kidding!

In reality the crazy lady opened the Palin Compound dungeon and dragged her barely conscious Facebook writer out into the Alaska daylight, where she then shackled her arms and feet to a computer desk and screamed at her in unintelligible Glossolalia until she typed out the following post. (Okay maybe it did not happen EXACTLY that way, but that is how I envision it.)

In this latest mean girl post Palin gleefully jumps on our President for not talking to Tony Hayward CEO of BP in person, as if sharing tea and crumpets with the guy who once said "I just want my life back" would somehow magically plug up the oil spewing hole in the ocean and release little pixies to gently scrub all of the pelicans and little fishies clean of oil and return them to their habitat none the worse for wear. I think one of those rare Wasilla unicorns might have told her that.

The recently enhanced BOOB goes on to condemn Obama for giving BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation, 

What she purposefully fails to mention is that the Mineral's Management Service who provided that exemption is still packed to the gills with oil company whores from the Bush Administration.

And this is the same Mineral's Management Service by the way that did THREE environmental assessments in 2007 and downplayed the possibility of a "large spill" as well as saying that if there WERE a spill it would not be much of a problem to clean up.

Here read it for yourself:

While the MMS assessed the environmental impact of drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico on three occasions in 2007 -- including a specific evaluation of BP's Lease 206 at Deepwater Horizon -- in each case it played down the prospect of a major blowout.

In one assessment, the agency estimated that "a large oil spill" from a platform would not exceed a total of 1,500 barrels and that a "deepwater spill," occurring "offshore of the inner Continental shelf," would not reach the coast. In another assessment, it defined the most likely large spill as totaling 4,600 barrels and forecast that it would largely dissipate within 10 days and would be unlikely to make landfall.

"They never did an analysis that took into account what turns out to be the very real possibility of a serious spill," said Holly Doremus, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley who has reviewed the documents.

THAT is who was advising Obama on the issue of granting an exemption to BP.  And Sarah Palin damn well knows it!

And as for her calls for Obama to follow HER example of how to deal with the oil companies more effectively, well why don't we let respected author, and current Palin next door neighbor, Joe McGinniss remind you of how well that worked out.

You see, before she became the woman who John McCain said “knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States”—and long before she became the new darling of the newly disenfranchised far right—Sarah Palin had been a bare-knuckle backwoods populist who’d built a career out of puffing up dragons she could then slay. Her tactic was first to demonize, then to defeat. She’d ridden her luck for 10 years, from the Wasilla city council to the governorship. And when she became governor, in 2006, she found herself eyeball-to-eyeball with Alaska’s most demonizable dragon of all—Big Oil.

How better to defang the industry that had ruled Alaska like a colonial master for 40 years than to make sure its major players would be no more than spectators at the state’s next grand pageant, the building of a new pipeline that would carry natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to what Palin called the “hungry markets” of the Lower 48?

In her zeal, however, Palin overlooked one salient fact: It was Alaska’s three largest oil producers—Exxon Mobil Corp., BP, and ConocoPhillips Co.—that controlled the natural gas the new pipeline would need if it were ever to pump anything more than hot air.

By writing the rules in a way that excluded the oil companies from the process, Palin—although she gained the short-term approval-rating points that made her seem attractive to McCain last summer—all but assured that the “largest private-sector infrastructure project in North America” would never be anything more than her personal field of dreams.

And by the way it is beyond hypocritical for Sarah Palin to suggest that Obama needs to be more involved in dealing with the higher ups in BP.  When you talk to people who worked with, or were friends with Sarah Palin you learn one very specific thing about her.

She did NOT do her own dirty work!

Sarah Palin would NEVER have called the CEO of BP!  She would have had Todd do it.  Or if she thought there might be some negative fallout, she would have had somebody expendable in her administration do it so she would have them to blame if things went poorly.  THAT is how Sarah Palin rolled!

Sarah Palin hated the idea of getting blood on her manicured hands by placing the knife in her target's back all by herself, and you would have recently learned even more about that reluctance if you had been reading Mercede's new blog.

Palin may have the money to hire professionals to type up a compassionate intelligent persona to present to the public via Facebook, but she is not fooling those of us who knew her as our half term governor.  We Alaskans know that she is still that frumpy insecure mean girl from junior high school,  and that when she thought she smelled Presidential blood in the water she went right for Obama's jugular just like the hateful little minx that she will always be.

And by the way, just in case you want to be reminded as to HOW ineffectual Sarah Palin was in dealing with BP in Alaska, don't forget that her husband was a BP employee the whole time she temperarily served as governor of our state and that his job, by the way, was to manage inspections of a little thing called a blowout preventer.