Sarah Palin: Feds Should Be More Involved in the Gulf Clean-Up?!?

Still-not-ready-for-prime-time former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin recently lashed out at President Obama for his lack of immediate appreciation of the effect and impact of BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

"Pointing to what she termed the White House's relationship with "the oil companies who have so supported President Obama in his campaign and are supportive of him now," Palin questioned whether "there's any connection there to President Obama taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there, and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the Gulf of Mexico."

Uhhhhhh, Sarah, as the nominal head of the Tea Party (although hopefully not for long), you are not supposed to be advocating for increased federal involvement in these types of things.

The fact is, BP has (rightfully) committed to paying billions of dollars out of its own pocket to remedy the damage done by the spill, and is currently acting on that commitment.

We should be happy that the federal government hasn't tried (to date) to take over the clean-up efforts, as doing so would likely quadruple the current estimated costs and make an even bigger mess of what already exists.

Having President Obama fly down to New Orleans to bloviate about the spill would not have actually accomplished anything, and we should be thankful he hasn't done that yet.

Ms. Palin should quickly recognize that what people who support the Tea Party want out of government is not more political posturing and grandstanding, but rather for government to get out of the way and let people and private enterprise mingle, contract and co-exist with minimal intervention. Demanding that President Obama get down to the Gulf and meddle in the clean-up efforts does not further that agenda.