When "Diapers Dave" Vitter bellows, "Do you know who I am?," the answer should be, "Didn't you used to be a U.S. senator?"

"Do you know who I am?"
bellows Louisiana Sen. "Diapers Dave" Vitter

by Ken

By now I trust you've heard about "Diapers Dave" Vitter's Dulles Airport diaper-pooping wig-out last Thursday after he missed a flight from D.C. to New Orleans, as Howie noted earlier.

If Karl Rove had material like (a) the legend of Senator Dave's hookers 'n' diapers days and (b) this "Do you know who I am?" episode to use against a pol he was targeting, the poor SOB's career would be over, finito, kaput, seeya!

For starters, you wouldn't be able to go anywhere in Louisiana without seeing an image of a raging "Diapers Dave" bellowing, "Do you know who I am?"

Cousin Karl Rove would know exactly how to play this so that by the time he finished with Diapers Dave, the SOB wouldn't be able to show his face in the state of Louisiana. I think this is the kind of self-important arrogance that average Americans just hate -- or can be helped to just hate.

Cousin Karl would also know whether and how to bring the Diaperman's previous peccadillos into play. I think our Dave has now spread himself wide open for it, the idea being that while pillorying him for the bullying "Do you know who I am?" bravado, at the same time you get citizens to remember, "Oh yeah, he was involved in that hooker business, and wasn't there something really disgusting, like with diapers or poop or something?"

I'm just saying.

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UPDATE: AND NOW THE FEDS ARE ONTO VITTER

Vitter was in a rush to get back to New Orleans-- art by Hebiclens

The TSA is looking into the incident. I wonder if Vitter uses the old excuse that he had diaper rash and it made him irrational leading to the tantrum.

The Transportation Security Administration is examining Sen. David Vitter's much-reported decision to open the closed gateway door to his plane-- even though he was warned against it by an airline worker.

..Vitter arrived at the gate 20 minutes before departure, and having been denied access to the plane, spiraled into what Roll Call called a "timeworn 'do-you-know-who-I-am' tirade" that "grew quite heated." He set off the security alarm when he opened the door, a spy told the paper.

Vitter claims, "I accidentally went through a wrong door at the gate."