Don't be ridiculous Zeus. When the voting doesn't go Dems way they don't have to respect it.
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It's more valuable for democrats to hold to this as a wedge issue for as long as they can rather than do something about it.
Obama only made a big show of his "conversion" on the issue - complete with fake leaking of his epiphany by the Vice-President - to shore up another narrow interest bloc in his base. Mission accomplished, issue dropped.