Sorry seems to be the hardest word....

Dana Milbank writes about the whole increase in not only rhetoric but lists in more detail than I did the other day....

Perhaps we could arrange for a group apology. It would certainly save time.

The capital has been racked by a bipartisan barrage of incautious remarks this year -- a bull market in over-the-top rhetoric -- as Democrats and Republicans take turns expressing outrage that the other side has crossed the line.

While Rove's rhetoric now has Democrats pouncing and Republicans squirming, one Republican has reason to smile. Rep. Deborah Pryce (Ohio), chairman of the House Republican Conference, should be relieved that hardly anybody noticed her statement Wednesday that Democrats represent the interests of "foreign criminals" and "would-be terrorists."

Also worth noting from the article:

The Republican-controlled state House of Representatives in Pennsylvania took the paddle last week to its home-state junior senator. Santorum, of the aforementioned Hitler controversy, had received tens of thousands of dollars from Penn Hills School District, outside Pittsburgh, for tuition for his children to attend online charter schools called cyberschools. One problem: Although the Santorums own a house in Penn Hills, they live most of the time in Northern Virginia, where their children are home-schooled. In a bill inspired by the Santorum case, the House voted 175 to 24 to restrict eligibility for such payments to people who actually reside in the state. The measure now goes to the state Senate.