Earmarks.

Man, I hate those things. It is nothing more than the theft of private money to be given to another party who did not earn it. And they go for the most outrageous things. Take, for instance, Hillary and Chuck Shumer’s request for $1,000,000, for a museum about Woodstock. Are there not enough ex-hippy establishment types around to donate $1,000,000? I thought these people loved this commune thinking? Why do I have to pay for this crap?

Thanks to a few republicans, I don’t:

Clinton and Charles Schumer, Democratic senators from New York, want to earmark the federal money for a museum that would commemorate the 1969 music festival in their state.

“Woodstock Museum is a shining example of what’s wrong with Washington on pork-barrel, out-of-control spending,” said John McCain, Arizona senator and Republican presidential hopeful. An example, he said, of “the earmark pork-barrel spending which has made the American people disenchanted and angry.”

Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, and Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, were trying Thursday to strip the Woodstock earmark from a massive health and education spending bill on the Senate floor. Democrats moved to kill their effort, but Republicans won a key 52-42 vote — seeping with presidential politics — signaling the Clinton-Schumer earmark would soon be gone.

Thanks godness. Call these guys and tell them thanks. These guys in Congress get all the hate mail and complaints they deserve, but how often does someone call just to say thanks. Look for the phone numbers in the left sidebar. It’s all linked up there. Let these folks know that this is exactly the type of thing that needs to happen more often.