Gag me.

The society page of the Dallas Morning News reports the Bushes are raising big bucks. The question is, why? Political campaigns or lawyering up?

Bush Family Barbecue Attracts GOP Heavyweights

By SANDRA FAY / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

Barely back from the Final Four in San Antonio, Phyllis and Bobby Ray were among 200 guests at the presidential ranch in Crawford for Friday’s Bush Family Barbecue, with President George W. Bush and first lady Laura, former first couple George and Barbara Bush, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Karl Rove was in attendance and was said to be ebullient about the current presidential campaign. Presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain was in Texas on Friday and it was thought he might pop in before the evening ended.

Bobby tried to convince Phyllis the event was in honor of her birthday Thursday, but she wasn’t buying it and he’ll have to come through with something else. It’s been suggested an amount commensurate with his political gifts would be a nice gesture, but it isn’t known if that will happen.

Group president of K. Hovnanian Homes, Bobby is a member of an elite group of major donors to the Republican National Committee.

Hmmm. No mention of Jeb’s wife, Columba, attending. Maybe she doesn’t get along that well with her in-laws. I can’t imagine why. After all, Poppy Bush made it clear he loved his grandchildren despite the fact that their mother was Mexican (yes, I’m being ironic) when he introduced them to Pres. Reagan in 1988 as, “the little brown ones.”