Barbara Bush is in "failing health" and won't seek additional medical treatment.

[dixiegrrrrl]

sez Bush family in news release.

Link to tweet

Kyle is an MSNBC news producer.

[guillaumeb]

1. Unlike millions of Americans,

the Bush family can afford the best medical care, so price is not a concern.

[DeminPennswoods]

18. Hospice care is covered by Medicare

nt

[displacedtexan]

31. My brother had around the clock hospice care & Medicare covered everything.

From the moment the RN completed her assessment (the MD was on the phone the whole time), FedEx started delivering meds and the nurses spent twelve hour shifts by his side. It was amazing, and he finally just went to sleep, peacefully.

[hlthe2b]

2. Geez, I would have thought she'd outlive GHWBush...

I'm sure she is getting excellent care, something countless millions can not expect, but I will leave it at that.

[Fla Dem]

15. My first thought as well. GHWB depended a lot on her. Would not be surprised to see him

go once she has passed.

I never liked her for many reasons, but wish her a peaceful passing.

[misanthrope]

24. My first thought as well

Poppy will go about the same time.

[Different Drummer]

3. Regardless of your political affiliation, this is definitely sad news.

I was about to post a link to a similar tweet before reading yours.

[NurseJackie]

4. I'll always remember her kindness and compassion...

Barbara Bush said of the war in Iraq: "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"


Barbara Bush said that hurricane Katrina New Orleans refugees being housed in the Houston Astrodome were "underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

[gopiscrap]

6. exactly! Fuck her!!!

[Hoyt]

12. Hard to forget that callousness.

[angstlessk]

20. I was searching for that post...thanks

According to the news of Barbara Bush's imminent demise "why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that"

[malaise]

22. Thank you NurseJackie

Same here

[bdamomma]

39. Oh yea

I remembered those quotes.

[TexasBushwhacker]

42. Then there's her showing her miscarried fetus to George W

I realize if you miscarry at home, doctors recommend you bring the fetus in so it can be examined for abnormalities, but I find her showing said fetus in a jar to the teenage George W a bit bizarre.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I hope her passing is peaceful.

I've often disagreed with her statements, but I bear her no ill will.

[hlthe2b]

7. I only wish she'd shown that kind of compassion to others in her life (e.g., post Katrina)

and those dying in her son's ill-conceived war.

Still, though she did not always extend such kindness and understanding towards others, I will do so toward her.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. I don't claim to be a wise woman, but in my 70+ years I have learned

is that bearing hatred and bad feeling in your heart will cause damage to you and will have no effect on the person you despise. Sometimes you just need to let it go.

[MyOwnPeace]

11. Tough lesson to learn..............

and even tougher if you've encountered some rough experiences along the way.

But...........

you are correct.

[hlthe2b]

17. I stated that I would extend to her the good wishes and compassion that...

she did not always extend to others. I don't see that as anything other than appropriate, though I won't fail to remember how she treated others in dire need of such compassion.

[CTyankee]

30. I am also in my 70s and I agree with you.

I sometimes feel bitter toward my ex husband but I am happily remarried now (for 32 wonderful years) and it is a waste of my mind and my time to get all worked up over my first husband's transgressions.

Barbara is not going to be with us much longer. As you said "let it go." Or, as the Beatles sang "let it be."

[Arkansas Granny]

35. I hear ya.

[IluvPitties]

33. You are a wise granny

and I send you a hug!

[Arkansas Granny]

34. I never turn down a hug.

[bdamomma]

40. you are so good

Arkansas Granny. Let it go, or shake it off!

[MrsCoffee]

10. Thoughts and prayers.

[MyOwnPeace]

13. OMG!!!!!

Sorry,

I don't know how to react to that one.

On one hand, I believe in the sincerity.

On the other, I wonder if you're not a Republican congressperson reading the "quick response card" following another mass shooting!

I'm going for #1, but chuckling at the irony!

[Freethinker65]

14. Yep

[Kaleva]

16. Hope she has a peaceful passing.

It is not my nature to go after very old people.

[Mosby]

38. my feelings exactly. nt

[nolabear]

19. May she cross easy.

It all comes down to the same thing in the end.

[poboy2]

21. She's 92. Bye already. -nt

[LuckyCharms]

37. What an interesting comment.

[smirkymonkey]

23. She has led a long, privileged life. She's 92.

I don't have it in my heart to wish her ill, even though she has not been a very kind person. I hope she passes peacefully.

[PJMcK]

25. She's irrelevant

As I've written in other posts about Mrs. Bush, that's the nicest thing I have to say about her.

[democrank]

26. Hope she goes peacefully

surrounded by family.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. A complicated woman.

Married and left college before graduation.

After losing her toddler daughter, Robin, to cancer, she and HW went out golfing to deal with their grief.

Advocated for reading (perhaps in deference to W's dyslexia).

Supported birth control and abortion but kept silent since 1980 when the republican party went evangelical.

Didn't want to sully her "beautiful mind" thinking about filled body bags from Afghanistan because those bags caused anguish to her son who filled those body bags.

Was so bitchy that Richard Nixon commented, “That is a woman who knows how to hate."


Nonetheless, her imperfections don't make me wish her turmoil at the end as she faces transition. I can only hope she's made her peace with those whom she's hurt either purposely or inadvertently.

[Crunchy Frog]

28. The passing of a "beautiful mind".

Everyone dies eventually, and Mrs Bush is no exception. I expect that her passing will be a good deal more comfortable than that of many others.

[blogslut]

29. Here is my nice thing to say about Barbara Bush:

After Nancy Reagan moved out of the White House, Babs turned Nancy's in-house beauty salon into a welping room for Millie the dog.

[Ilsa]

32. My guess is that her husband will go downhill quickly

after she passes. He hasn't been looking too great, either.

[CTyankee]

36. Oh yes. It is sad but men who lose their wives in old age really go down fast afterwards.

Women tend to be stronger but men just seem to fall apart...we had a wonderful older couple next door and she died first. He was gone in two weeks after...god, how sad...

[bdamomma]

41. looks like Barbara

worn the pants in the family.