11th November 2012, 10:44 PM
The problem in 2000 is that the issue was perfectly divided along party lines. What's needed, as it would be for an amendment, is support that crosses party lines.
"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)