David Vitter Gets His Panties In A Bunch Over Hillary

I don't know if the Senate's best known whoremonger, Louisiana reactionary David Vitter, is still a diaper fetishist or not and I don't know if he was wearing his diapers when he went to work at the U.S. Senate today. And I certainly don't know if they needed to be changed or not. But I do know that the odor in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing was coming from the one skunk at the picnic: David "Diapers" Vitter.

The vote to recommend that the full Senate confirm Senator Hillary Clinton was 16-1, Vitter the one holdout. Even radical right fanatic Jim DeMint (R-SC), the Senate's most obstreperous obstructionist, offered a thumbs up and even a few words of praise. "Like most of us, I think Sen. Clinton could be one of our best secretaries of state,” said DeMint. Joining him in voting for her were all the Democrats on the panel plus Republicans Richard Lugar (IN), Bob Corker (TN), Johnny Isakson (GA), John Barrasso (WY), George Voinovich (OH) and Lisa Murkowski (AK).

Vitter who's primary brush with national recognition has always come when he has been caught in messy situations with a series of prostitutes and mistresses, one of whom told the press about his many fetishes, including his need to be spanked and his reveling in diapers, isn't exactly an icon of moral rectitude. But, always a paragon of gross hypocrisy, he issued a statement explaining his vote:

“I believe President Clinton’s business and foundation dealings are a multimillion dollar minefield of conflicts of interest. And this could produce explosions at any minute, particularly concerning the Middle East where we least need them.”

Vitter had demanded that President Clinton resign in 1998 because of his affair with Monica Lewinsky-- at exactly the same time that Vitter was the most frequent client of Washington's most notorious escort service. Vitter is up for election in 2010 but he's from Louisiana so it won't matter.