This has to be on of the most interesting, and wasteful, earmarks of all time. Hillary wants American taxpayers to spend at least $1 million constructing a museum to hippies. No, really.

Hippies used to say if you remember Woodstock, you weren’t really there. Republicans say presidential contender Hillary Clinton can forget about getting $1 million in taxpayer funds for a Woodstock museum.

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.”…

“With all the pressing needs facing our country today, from entitlement reform to children’s health care to the war in Iraq, the idea that the federal government should fund a museum that celebrates a 38-year-old concert is simply absurd,” Kyl said.

How long before Democrats get old hippies to go on the air to attack Republicans for not caring about hippies?

Now, there’s good news and bad news here. The good news? The funding failed. The bad news? By just 42-52. 42 Senators saw absolutely nothing wrong with this…

H/t Hot Air.