Now the DUmmies are going nuts because the Republicans foiled the evil plan by not showing up at the necessary committee meetings in order to prevent there being the required quorum. Have to give it to McConnell on that one, he couldn't can't stop the bastards from changing the filibuster rule, so he served them up a heaping dose of their own rule-playing gamesmanship.
Ultimately, I don't believe that McConnell, McCain, et.al, are all that unhappy that the Dhimmi'Rats have pulled the trigger on this. After all, assuming our optimism for the 2014 midterms is warranted, they now do not have to go through a very public internacine fight in order to muzzle the Mike Lees, Ted Cruzes and Rand Pauls of the party. All they have to do is carry over Comrade Harry's rules change, nice and quietly, as presently enacted. They don't have to get their spineless little hands dirty at all.
I've seen plenty of innerwebz comments asking the Republican RINO branch if they still think "reaching across the aisle" was a good idea: I'm sure they think it was a great idea, because the pedarast Harry Reid just handed his RINO butt buddies an early Christmas present, and ensured their - continued - slobbering devotion to him and his for years to come.