You Can't Have it Both Ways

As much as you want it, you can't have it both ways. You have to give something up to get something else. You can trick yourself into thinking you can have the cake and eat it too, but you can't. You gotta choose. And once the choice is made, you have to stick with it.

We want democracy in Iraq and our troops home soon. Pick one or the other, brother. We want full benefits from social security, but we don't want to pay more taxes or our future benefits to change. Pick one or the other, mother. We want to cure disease, but we don't want to harvest embryos. Pick one or the other, Mr. President.

It's a bitch, that's for sure. For us to have the one, we have to compromise the other. It's the whole conservation of matter deal. To desire both is to flaunt reality and common sense. And you ought not try it. As they say on the traffic reports, "pick your lane and stay with it".

Balls.