No doubt you missed it, given the roadblock coverage of General Petraeus and his novel “Endless Surge” strategy, but Larry Craig’s mouthpiece roadtested the Senator’s latest legal gambit via NBC: “Senator Craig stepped into that bathroom to do a perfectly legal function.”

How elegant, as legal solutions go: in America, we’re free to defecate pretty much where and when we will — we’re the envy of the world in that way — but apparently the Minneapolis airport police hate our freedom.

And this whole fiendishly clever courtroom strategy timed to drop on the anniversary of 9/11. Brilliant.

We may well have underestimated this Senator Craig: he may be closeted and hypocritical like a gay fox.