Tony Snow is shocked, shocked, I tell you!

Regarding the Hussein sentencing occurring on the Sunday immediately before the Tuesday election, the Washington Post reports:

Democratic leaders avoided publicly accusing the Bush administration of orchestrating the verdict's timing but privately some raised questions, and liberal Internet blogs have been full of angry discussion about it. The Iraqi court originally planned to render a verdict in October but delayed it until two days before the election, prompting a defense lawyer for Hussein to write a letter accusing Bush of manipulating the proceedings for campaign purposes.

Snow dismissed the suggestion as "preposterous" and absurd. "Are you smoking rope?" he replied when a reporter asked about timing manipulation aboard Air Force One on Saturday. "Are you telling me that in Iraq, that they're sitting around -- I'm sorry, that the Iraqi judicial system is coming up with an October surprise?" Corrected on the date, he expressed incredulity, "A November surprise. Man, that's -- wow."

Shorter Tony Snow: "Fuck yeah, we did it! Whatcha gonna do about it?"

Somehow, the Post reporter forgot the words "feigned" in between "expressed" and "incredulity".