Senator Jim DeMint was trying to push through a bill to deny the city of Berkeley any federal funding should they follow through on their threats to give military recruiters in their city the boot, and Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blocked the bill.

“The only reason to recess is to block something, and the thing that got blocked by Reid’s stall tactic was the Semper Fi Act,” said spokesman Wesley Denton, referring to the bill introduced by his boss, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.).

“Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.”

Meanwhile, in Berkeley, the Code Pink nut jobs Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats are pandering too crossed into a city park and attacked pro-military advocates demonstrating there.

Berkeley erupted in violence Tuesday morning when the Communist, terrorist-supporting anti-war group crossed into Martin Luther King Park and assaulted pro-troop individuals. Riot police stood by, but did not stop the assaults.

Police agencies did not respond to calls for help. . . .

MAF Exeutive Director Catherine Moy attempted to get help from the Berkeley police as the mayhem unfolded, but an officer hung up on Moy. Moy asked the California Highway Patrol to help in the emergency, but the CHP refused.

“I have never in my life experienced such inaction in the face of an emergency, “Moy said. “I will ask the Federal Government to investigate, as well as the State Attorney General. It is one thing to give free parking places to the City Council’s special interest anti-war groups, it is another to take sides and endanger the lives of others.”

A prime example of that tolerance liberals are so famous for.

This is what the Democrats in Washington DC are protecting.  A bunch of transparently communist thugs who go so far beyond mere opposition to the war in Iraq that it is perfectly fair and acceptable to describe them as actually hating the military.  If Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats actually meant what they said when they tell us that they “support the troops” they’d be joining Republicans in opposing Code Pink, not pandering to that despicable organization.