Tax Money For A Hippie Museum

Several bloggers are pointing to this Bob Novak article on some of the nutty earmarks coming out of Congress as they mark up appropriation bills. Why does the billionair founder of the Woodstock hippie museum need a million bucks from the taxpayers for? Oh because he has given heavily to the Democrats and donated the max to Madame Hillary the earmark's sponsor.

Would the Democratic-controlled Senate approve a $1 million earmark to celebrate Woodstock-era baby boomers, carved out of a bill funding health care and education? It would because it is sponsored by New York's influential senators, Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer. It would because they promote the pet project of a big-time Democratic campaign contributor.

Nevertheless, as the Senate began consideration Wednesday of the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma proposed an amendment to eliminate the earmark. The $1 million goes to the performing arts center of the Bethel Museum in Liberty, N.Y., the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival. Coburn argues that a "taxpayer-funded Woodstock flashback" cuts into the government's Education for Homeless Children and Youth grants.

GOP prospects for '08 are looking better and better with an 11% approval rating for the hypercorrupt Dem led Congress and the supracorrupt Hillary Clinton as their leader for POTUS. The GOP is beating them like a drum on important votes and seems to be returning to its roots as the adult party after the display this week by the Democrats on the Schip votes. The Dems aren't the party for the children they are the party of whiney spoiled children.