A lot of folks are getting their tie-dyed T-shirts in a knot over a proposal to spend about a million of taxpayer dollars for a museum commemorating the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. Most of them happen to be politicians.
Especially Arizona Sen. John McCain, who's seeking the Republican presidential nomination, who scored Hillary Clinton, the senator from New York where the hippie gathering took place, for her unsuccessful support of a bill authorizing the hippie museum.
In fact, McCain got a chuckle at the last GOP candidates' debate saying he couldn't attend the music fest with the estimated 450,000 other concertgoers because he "was tied up at the time." Of course, most of us know, or should know, that McCain suffered greatly as a prisoner of war of the North Vietnamese after his jet was shot down during the Vietnam War.
However, it's not like a million dollars is a lot of money for the federal budget. The feds have spent more than that on national park outhouses. There's certainly plenty of pork to go around to appease what is now an aging hippiedom. And these aging hippies vote; some might even be Republicans.
Despite the lack of federal funding, plans are for the museum to open next year in Bethel, N.Y., just in time to be ready for the 40th anniversary of Woodstock in 2009, when The Hound is sure there will be newly configured CDs and DVDs aplenty for those damn hippies to buy with capitalistic coin. Wonder what Hanoi Jane thinks about all this?
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