{"id":583,"date":"2025-04-17T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/?p=583"},"modified":"2025-04-17T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:59:09","slug":"showdown-at-the-national-corral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/2025\/04\/17\/showdown-at-the-national-corral\/","title":{"rendered":"Showdown at the National Corral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/lengel.net\/audio\/Showdown.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Executive, legislative, judicial;<br>The President, the Congress, the Courts.<br>\u201cThis town ain\u2019t big enough for the three of us.\u201d<br>We\u2019re in for some serious sports .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My money is on the President.<br>He thinks he\u2019s clever and smart.<br>He thinks he has a mandate<br>To tear the country apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Congress is loading its bullets:<br>\u201cWe make the laws, not him.<br>He\u2019ll do what we say, or will put him away.<br>He can\u2019t rule with his personal whims.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf ever you two should start shooting,\u201d<br>Says the court as it sits in its robes.<br>\u201cWe\u2019ll be the final decider;<br>We\u2019ll make sure that nothing explodes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sun beats down on the trio.<br>The pistols are loaded and primed.<br>Three branches arrayed in the foreground;<br>World watching before and behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President takes aim at the Congress;<br>The Congress just cowers and hides;<br>The Court is stuck in its holster;<br>The people can\u2019t wait to take sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look who gets caught in the crossfire:<br>The children, the old folks, the lame.<br>The economy shot down and bloody,<br>America never the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the olden days gunfight at Tombstone,<br>Like the present day contest of will,<br>We are headed right now for a showdown<br>That can only propel us downhill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive, legislative, judicial;The President, the Congress, the Courts.\u201cThis town ain\u2019t big enough for the three of us.\u201dWe\u2019re in for some serious sports . My money is on the President.He thinks he\u2019s clever and smart.He thinks he has a mandateTo tear the country apart. But the Congress is loading its bullets:\u201cWe make the laws, not him.He\u2019ll &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/2025\/04\/17\/showdown-at-the-national-corral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Showdown at the National Corral&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}