The Hill is reporting that House Republicans appear to have abandoned their campaign to pass a surveillance bill with telecom amnesty in favor of another try to get the Bush tax cuts made permanent.
You may remember this was a very big deal for a very long time and the Senate approved a horrid version that gave retroactive immunity, but the House dug in its heels and refused.
The blogs like Glenn Greenwald's and Firedoglake and Daily Kos and whole lot of others in partnership with MoveOn, the ACLU and Electronic Freedom Foundation put up a real fight and drew an outpouring from online dwellers and other activists who rallied to the cause, calling, Faxing and emailing their Congress critters.
Is it over? As the talking heads say, time will tell.
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