And if Sarah Palin is ever president, Levi Johnston will be Secretary of Energy

And Todd will be Secretary of State, and Bristol will be Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Track will be Secretary of Defense.

Because when it comes to using one's influence to enrich one's own family coffers, if there's one family that can give the Bushes a run for their money, it's the Palin clan:

Have you noticed how our governor seems to have convinced herself only some of the rules apply to her?

This attitude was really at the heart of Troopergate. It also allows her to do things like take cash from the state for spending more than 300 nights in her own home in Wasilla.

Now it appears the governor may have found a new way to skirt the rules. How is it possible that the governor's soon-to-be son-in-law, Levi Johnston, is working as an apprentice on the North Slope?

The governor, in trying to dispel rumors the father of her grandchild is a high school dropout, released this statement this past week,

"Levi is continuing his online high school work in addition to working as an electrical apprentice on the North Slope."

But federal regulations require all members of apprentice programs, union or otherwise, to first obtain a high school diploma, something the governor's soon-to-be son-in- law does not have. Some apprentice programs even require the completion of high school level algebra or the post-secondary equivalent.

So how is it that the governor's soon-to-be son-in-law is working in an apprentice program? Is this another case of the governor believing the rules don't apply to her or her family?

Apparently. After all, this IS the same woman who decided that her campaign wardrobe ought to also include designer underwear for her children.

(Note: The above quote is not to give any laurels to the commentary's author, Dan Fagan, who apparently is utterly vile on everything other than watchdogging Palin's shoveling taxpayer cash into her pocket.)