Limbaugh-Steele Spat Spawns Mocking 'I'm Sorry Rush' Apology Site

Steele dismissed the spat as a "sideshow distraction."

"My point is that there are a lot of opinions out there, some come from people who are notable, some from people who are not so notable. And my job is to try to balance that. I wasn't that effective at it this week, but, you know, I've been 30 days on the job and we'll, you know, move forward," Steele said on NBC's "Today" show.

"And along the way, my opponents, Democrats, and even a few others out there, will try to mix us up and get us off track. But my goal is to stay focused on trying to get us in a direction where we can win and have something important to say to the American people.

The Democrats haven't had this much fun since, well, Barack Obama was elected president. So naturally, they aren't going to give up their mocking of the verbal spat between Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele and conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh. Today, the Democratic National Committee fanned the flames with a statement from party boss Tim Kaine, who suggests that Steele's apology for harshly describing Limbaugh proves that Limbaugh is the leader of the GOP.

"The Administration is enabling me,” he wrote in an email to POLITICO. “They are expanding my profile, expanding my audience and expanding my influence. An ever larger number of people are now being exposed to the antidote to Obamaism: conservatism, as articulated by me. An ever larger number of people are now exposed to substantive warnings, analysis and criticism of Obama's policies and intentions, a ‘story’ I own because the [mainstream media] is largely the Obama Press Office.”

The bigger, the better, agreed Democrat James Carville. “It’s great for us, great for him, great for the press,” he said of Limbaugh. “The only people he’s not good for are the actual Republicans in Congress.”