Be Careful What You Hope For....

Huff & Puff commenters last Friday after the announcement that a new growth had been detected in White House Press Secretary Tony Snow's large intestine:

- “Sure holding all that bullshit in your gut would make anybody sick..!”

- “You can only swallow so much............can you say karma.................”

- “The growth in his abdomen is his head stuck up his ass. Fuck him!! He is pure lying scum and should die ASAP!!”

The latest update following Mr. Snow's surgery this morning:

White House press secretary Tony Snow, who has become the face of the Bush presidency over the last year, has cancer again.

Snow's deputy, Dana M. Perino, broke into tears at an off-camera briefing this morning as she announced that the cancer has spread to his liver.

Hey, Huff & Puffers, KosHacks, DUmmies - let the celebration begin! Your father the devil may be giving you your twisted wish! Whoopie! I bet you're so proud of yourselves.

Meanwhile, back in the land outside the Hades Express:

President Bush, in brief remarks to reporters later in the White House Rose Garden, asked Americans to pray for his ailing spokesman, who he said called him this morning from the hospital to pass on the information that his cancer had returned.

"His attitude is one that he is not going to let this whip him, and he's upbeat," Bush said. "My attitude is that we need to pray for him and for his family." He said his message to Snow is "stay strong; a lot of people love you and care for you and will pray for you. And we're hoping for all the best."

Bush added, "I'm looking forward to the day that he comes back to the White House and briefs the press corps on the decisions that I'm making and why I'm making them. In the meantime, I hope our fellow citizens offer a prayer to he and his family."

Indeed. And for John and Elizabeth Edwards, the latter of whose cancer has also returned and spread to her bone marrow.

That isn't "karma"; rather, it's a reminder that there are, after all, areas of life that do still fall outside the perview of partisan politics.