23rd September 2011, 8:50 PM
What makes you think they can't abolish it? It's perfectly possible, technically, it just won't happen in this political climate. By the same token, no "loophole" that would "effectively" abolish it would ever pass either. The right may be dumb but they aren't stupid.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)