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Andrew Sullivan has an interesting take on why it makes sense for activists to pressure Obama to hang tough on the public option. Key quote:

What part of “we” in “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for?” does the Beltway still not understand? And why has it taken this long for the Obamaphiles to tackle their leader. He’s the follower, for Pete’s sake, remember? The people who voted for him are the leaders.

In a follow-up, this sometime conservative writes about how liberal activists are different from the Tea Party crowd in their intellectual honesty:

Because the time to pressure your establishment is when it is in power. Back in Bush’s first term and well into his second, a few of us actually did stand up to the unconservative spending and borrowing, the unconservative Federal Marriage Amendment, the illegal torture regime, and the unconservative recklessness with which both the Afghan and Iraqi wars were waged. Funny thing: none of the tea-partiers were with us. In fact they were mainly cheerleading a trillion dollar war based on false pretenses long after its bankruptcy was exposed.