Harry Reid calls the bluff.

Hot Damn!!!! I've been wanting someone to do this for quite some time. Instead of simply accepting the formality of the 41 vote cloture motion, Harry Reid is actually going to require the Republicans to pull an old school filibuster to prevent a vote on Iraq.

I want to see the image of Republicans standing in the Senate reading the phonebook to preserve Bush's surge.

(I assume that this move by Reid is also in response to this,

Barring an unlikely confirmation of Leslie Southwick to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by the Judiciary Committee this week, Senate GOP leaders have privately mapped out a retaliatory plan that involves blocking passage of Democratic legislation from now until the August recess.

Reid will let them get a taste of filibustering on high profile Iraq to see if they really want the politics of being that obstructionist.)