Bloggers are all over the Berkeley City Council, which is now facing a serious backlash to its disgusting comments and policies toward the United States Marine Corps. Check out Michelle Malkin and Ace of Spades in particular. One Code Pink organizer who complains to the Los Angeles Times that “the right-wing groups are trying to make this into an issue of whether you are for or against the Marines. It’s not about that.” Excerpts from the debate among city council members over the Marine presence in the city would seem to indicate otherwise. Lost amidst the debate, and the move by Harry Reid to shield Berkeley from Congressional action until they could retract their policy, is this fact: Berkeley isn’t about to change anything:
So in other words, the City Council retracts the inflammatory comments they approved about the Marine Corps, but they still intend to drive them out of the city. It would not change the city’s policy of encouraging interference with Corps’ recruitment; it would not affect the initiative to lump the recruitment office along with porn shops in city zoning regulations. Ultimately not even Harry Reid can protect the People’s Republic of Berkeley from itself, but Reid too will pay a price in the form of his falling approval ratings back in Nevada. And if the City Council doesn’t dramatically revise the city policy when it meets tonight, Congressional Republicans will have all the ammunition they need to go after the city more aggressively.
