Take This, Harry Reid - Senate Republicans FINALLY fight back ! ! !

From Breitbart's Big Government:

Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania figured out how to get a little payback from Senate Majority Leader "Dingy" Harry Reid Wednesday for the czar-like way he runs the Senate. Introduce what are known as “third degree” amendments to must-pass legislation being debated, and when they are ruled out-of-order, appeal the ruling and call for a roll call vote, effectively tying the place up, delaying what is going on, and forcing vulnerable Democrats to cast votes that may hurt them in the next election.

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So for the first time in months, Republicans went on the offensive. Toomey offered an amendment Wednesday to the bill now being debated to extend unemployment benefits that prohibits such benefits going to people making over $1 million a year – not exactly controversial. As expected, the amendment was ruled out of order, since Reid doesn’t allow Republican amendments.

However, surprise to Reid, Toomey appealed that order, which under the arcane Senate rules he is allowed to do. So what did Democrats do? At Reid’s demand, they started filibustering the appeal, which prohibited a vote in order to preserve Reid’s prohibition against Republican amendments.

The significance of what Toomey did was to demonstrate that no one senator may block amendments in the Senate like the Rules Committee does in the House. If senators can do it once, they can do it again, and again and again, forcing votes on amendments to must-pass legislation, in the process essentially ending the majority leader's ability to block Republican amendments.

Harry, paybacks a bitch and you just got pwn'd.