What I’m Laughing At: You Can’t Argue with Stupid

My daddy says that you can’t argue with stupid.  It’s futile.  It’s frustrating.

I thought of his point when I heard Sen. Arlen “Benedict” Spector argue that if the federal government had funded more cancer research, then Jack Kemp might still be alive.  (That comment is around the :58 mark.  You have to skip over all the ME, ME, ME, I’M AWESOME stuff before you get there.)

In an effort to combat Sen. Spector’s voodoo logic, Ed Morrissey posted this:

It’s also a grotesque lie.  During Republican control of Congress, federal spending on health research and regulation increased 46% after inflation, from $49 billion a year to $72 billion a year, or about 7% increase each year.  That’s almost the same rate of increase as Defense spending got in the same period (48%), when we actually had a real war on our hands, and not a political contrivance for excusing federal spending.

The attempt to refute Sen. Spector’s argument with data is admirable; however, you can’t argue with stupid.  Or, to borrow a phrase from Dennis Miller, who the hell knows what is going on in the woozy dreamland of that skull jelly?