President Barack Obama is insisting that BP be held financially accountable for the on-going disaster in the Gulf.  That prompted GOP congressman Joe Barton to claim that the corporation was the victim of an unethical "shakedown" by the administration.  He quickly apologized.  But many Republicans seem to agree that the needs of corporations come before the needs of actual Americans.  Now former half term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin - defender of a drill-baby-drill theology that says God gave humans dominion over the Earth to exploit as we please - has compared President Obama's attempts to hold BP accountable to Nazism.  If it were up to Palin and the GOP you can bet BP would get away scot-free.  After all, this is the same crew that fights tooth and nail against environmental protection and who during the Bush administration put oil executives in charge of monitoring the oil industry.