Tony Snow back at work!

From The Washington Post:

Don't get him wrong. Tony Snow appreciates all the cards and flowers and prayers. He's likely to choke up talking about the outpouring of support he has received since learning that his cancer has returned. But after weeks out of the office, Snow says, "you get buggy."

So the White House press secretary plans to return to duty today, raring to get back to representing a besieged president and jousting with journalists. With investigators bearing down, various appointees under fire and the president in a veto showdown with Congress, there will be no shortage of hard questions. And Snow can't wait.

"I'm feeling great and I'm in good shape," he said in an interview Friday. "I'm eager to get back at it. I actually don't feel any different from when I left."

The return of Snow's colon cancer a month ago sidelined President Bush's best-known champion and triggered a wave of public sympathy for the smooth-talking former television and radio show host. Snow has spent the past four weeks recovering from surgery and planning his treatment, staying out of public sight until his surprise appearance at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner this month.

He looked thinner and more drawn that night but delivered an impromptu speech filled with the upbeat energy that has characterized his public response to misfortune. Now, he said, he plans to return to work full time while receiving four months of biweekly chemotherapy treatments, beginning on Friday. Although the cancer has spread, including a tumor attached to his liver, Snow said his doctors told him the chemotherapy will be "less toxic" than the type he endured in 2005, when he continued working at Fox News six days a week.

It will be good to see Tony back at work. It will also be good to see the moonbats at DailyKos and Democrat Underground who had already written his obituary falling to the ground in paroxysms of foaming madness at the sight of his return.

You have to deeply admire his courage and determination. He gave up a lucrative gig as host of a popular nationally syndicated talk radio show and newspaper columnist to take the pay cut and massive work load of being the president's press secretary because he believed in president Bush and believed that he had a contribution to make.

And he was making a contribution. Nothing about his presence behind the podium blunted the frothing hatred of the White House press corps for Mr. Bush, but the fact that Mr. Snow was orders of magnatude more intelligent than they were often brought back memories of Oliver North's testamony before congress in the Iran-Contra hearings.

Again it is very good to see him back at work and let's all keep him in our prayers.