The matriarch of evil has poked her head out of the cave to take care of her son, Neil.  The Associated Press reports:

Former first lady Barbara Bush gave relief money to a hurricane relief fund on the condition that it be spent to buy educational software from her son’s company.

The chief of staff of former President George H.W. Bush would not disclose the amount earmarked for purchases from Ignite Learning.

Since Barbara Bush’s gift, the Ignite Learning program has been given to eight public schools with high numbers of Hurricane Katrina evacuees, the Houston Chronicle reported.

"Mrs. Bush wanted to do something specifically for education and specifically for the thousands of students flooding into the Houston schools," the former

President Bush’s chief of staff Jean Becker said Thursday.

The money was donated to the Bush-Clinton Houston Hurricane Relief Fund, said Steve Maislin, president of the Greater Houston Community Foundation, which administers the fund. That fund has no connection to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, he said.

Barbara Bush chose to promote Ignite because she supports her son and has genuine enthusiasm for his company’s program, Becker said.

Two years ago, the Houston school district board wrestled with conflict of interest concerns over the Ignite program. Neil Bush had helped raise $115,000 for the district’s philanthropic fund from donors who insisted the money be spent on his company’s software.

The district accepted the donations and used them to pay half the costs of new Ignite software, about $10,000 per school.

Currently, Houston public schools use 15 Ignite programs and the Houston area has 40 programs, said company president Ken Leonard.

Neil Bush founded the Austin-based company in 1999.

Since the AP released this story it has been picked up in the US, UK, and Australia.  As time goes by the story is getting watered down by some news agencies in an attempt to spin Mrs. Bush as caring about the children affected by Katrina. 

When the Queen of Mean visited these children stuck in the New Orleans Superdome back in December she audibly chuckled as she said: "So many of the people here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.  What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. Almost everyone I’ve talked to says: ‘We’re going to move to Houston’."

And the ever popular: "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths," Barbara Bush said on ABC’s "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

This is the woman that bore the evil seed of the Bush Administration, the pinnacle of family values.  Too bad she didn’t give him any intelligence to go with that indifference.