CQ picks over Republicans’ decision to vote for cloture, forcing a 30 hour debate on Sen. Feingold’s Iraq bill.

The GOP’s decision Tuesday on the Iraq bill prompted Democratic charges that Republicans were trying to avoid dealing with the housing measure. “They are going to stall and stretch this out as a long as possible to avoid a vote on the housing bill,” said Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill.

Further proof that the Democrats are not really interested in changing the Iraq policy, but only in highlighting it for their base. Now they’ve wasted up to a week of their majority by scheduling a war debate that it turns out they don’t even want to have.