As we noted in a recent editorial, Senate Democrats brought a few doomed measures to the floor recently in an attempt to generate some fodder for political advertisements. We compared the last-minute vote on the DREAM Act to the Republicans’ desperate 2006 vote on a flag-burning amendment.

We also predicted that you would soon hear about Spanish-language ads blasting Republicans for voting against DREAM, which provides a limited amnesty for some college students and allows state colleges to charge lower tuition rates to illegal immigrants than they do to Americans living out of state.