As we enter yet another year of global turmoil and economic upheaval, it is somehow comforting to know that in the upper northwest reaches of the country, at least, the time-honored tradition of The Grift is being passed down to the next generation.

Bristol Palin has founded her own “lobbying, public relations, and political consulting services” company, according to paperwork unearthed by NBC’s Rachel Maddow. The firm is called BSMP, for Bristol Sharon Marie Palin. . . .

The 19-year-old is currently serving as a PR ambassador for Candie’s Foundation, a group that promotes sexual abstinence. The paperwork establishing a company will shelter some income from Bristol’s current work, but will also allow her to take on other clients. The unmarried mom of year-old son Tripp has a high school diploma.

Well, if the kid has learned anything from her mother, it’s that some of the morans will be fooled all of the time. Bristol Palin made all of one appearance on behalf of the Candie’s Foundation, and that was back in May, 2009. Must have been a helluva well-paid show if she decided to file for LLC status on the basis of that appearance alone.

Bristol’s delusions of corporate grandeur aside, I think an Occam’s Razor approach to this latest palinistic trifle is the more reliable avenue to saunter down. What better place to launder campaign funds and major speaking fees than through a shell PR and lobbying firm set up by your daughter, who has absolutely no experience in PR and lobbying? Now THAT’S filial piety, people. Plus, you get to write off the lower level of your new home as an “office” for your other childrens’ inchoate business empires, as well. What’s next for this enterprising family? Piper Palin & Associates House of Fashion and Chemical Engineering, Ltd.?

And bitchez, please. Don’t try telling me that being a mother for a little over a year has equipped Bristol with all the tools necessary to run a business in a field of which she knows next to nothing. That bullshit line is waaay past its expiration date, thanks to the Snowbilly Queen’s ham-handed branding efforts.

By the way, Palin is back in training for the Teabagger Talk circuit. Just yesterday, Amaterasu of Wasilla worked herself into another rabid froth discussing death panels with the still-not-waterboarded Sean Hannity as a warm up for her upcoming Tea Party Cotillion. Good thing Congress’s attention will shortly turn to climate change and finance reform, because Palin is in dire need of new material. Maybe Willow can set up a media relations agency in the basement, next to the washer and dryer.