• David Vitter,  National Republican Senatorial Committee

    GOP Louisiana Senator David Vitter – Put A Fork in Vitter – HE’S DONE; Update: Vitter Denies and Says Incident Overstated

    March 11, 2009 /
    ++++++Update++++++

    Senator David Vitter has responded:

    “After being delayed on the Senate floor ensuring a vote on my anti-pay-raise amendment and in a rush to make my flight home for town hall meetings the next day, I accidentally went through a wrong door at the gate,” Vitter said in a statement. “I did have a conversation with an airline employee, but it was certainly not like this silly gossip column made it out to be.”

    David Vitter and Wendy

    Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), accompanied by his wife, Wendy Vitter, speaks during a news conference in Metairie, La., after a scandal linking him to a Washington escort service, July 16, 2007.

    Maybe Senator Vitter is not as egregiously bad morally as the Democrat’s former Senator and Presidential candidate John Edwards but this is the last straw.

    Among Members of Congress, there’s a long-standing, proud tradition of the Airport Freakout. Add to the list of those who’ve indulged in meltdowns and temper tantrums while traveling one Sen. David Vitter, who on Thursday joined what we’ve dubbed the “Mile-Low Club” by going ballistic on an airline worker after missing a flight from Washington’s Dulles airport to New Orleans.

    The National Republican Senatorial Committee should make it immediately clear to Vitter that he is done and recruit a candidate to replace him – before the national GOP loses another seat. God knows the Republican Party has enough vulnerable ones in the coming 2010 election.

    Bye Bye

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