Jack Kingston: “there is a story of a very learned doctor of theology, a distinguished minister, who was walking through the park one…”

“there is a story of a very learned doctor of theology, a distinguished minister, who was walking through the park one day. He sees a guy who is kind of an itinerant of sorts, and he is reading the Book of Revelations. The doctor of theology says to him, in a condescending, intellectual way, my good man, ``Do you have any idea at all of what you are reading in the Book of Revelations?'' To which the guy said, ``No, I can't say I understand every little bit of it.'' And he says, ``Then sir, why are you reading it?'' He said, ``Because I know how it ends.'' What I am saying, Mr. Chairman, is I do not believe this is a debate of pointy-headed intellectual bean-counters. I think this is a debate about common sense. Here is how I understand this issue. Under the normal U.S. census procedure, you go to a house. You ask how many folks live there. Three. You go to the second house. How many live there? Seven. How many live in the third house? Six. You write down three, seven, six. You come up with 16. Now, under the Democratic samplematics, you are doing it a little more creatively. You go to the first house and count three, to the second house and count seven, and at the third house you go to the drugstore and get yourself a Coca-Cola, and you sample about 20 people there. Then, depending on how many you need, you say, in total, we got maybe 15 to 25 people, depending on how many the folks need back in the office, and that is the count.…”