Since I've commented a couple of times (here and here) on the brouhaha involving Rep. Steve Kagen (aka Dr. Multimillionaire), it's worth noting that he has finally taken his medicine and apologized for the incident in a letter to his constituents that also ran in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Sunday:

I have officially been the congressman from the 8th district for almost three weeks now. In this short time, I am even more struck than I was when I first decided to run by the enormity of the challenges we face - in Iraq, in our nation's health care system, along our borders, in our public schools and universities, in our jobs and in the record debt we risk leaving for our children and grandchildren.

Yet you have probably heard more about my appearance at last year's White House reception for new lawmakers than you have about the issues my colleagues and I are grappling with today on your behalf. And that's a shame because you deserve better.

I apologize for handling this situation as I did. I allowed this distraction to get out of hand and divert our attention from the critically important work we are doing. My mishandled attempt at humor wasn't delivered or received well. It won't happen again.

I am completely committed to bipartisan efforts to confront the issues I was sent here to address...

Seems the brash Dr. Multimillionaire has suddenly - if belatedly - discovered the virtues of bipartisanship.