By pandering to their base, Democrats show they're losing the Senate

Today, the Senate is a mirror Image of what it was then. Senate Democrats, expecting to lose, have given up on actual bills intended to become law in favor of more cynical political stunts.

Their bill to undo the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision is just a bit of blue meat for the base — a messaging opportunity for their well-worn “war on women” theme.

More audacious, perhaps, is their proposed constitutional amendment to let Congress regulate political speech. This attempt to weaken America’s original Bill of Rights could well backfire on the 41 Democrats who are co-sponsoring it, but for now it serves as a symbolic sop for the Left’s naïve true-believers in campaign finance reform.

Neither of these measures has a prayer of passage — especially the constitutional change, which would require two-thirds majorities in both the House and Senate and ratification by the states.