President Bush and Gale Norton came around ... and may have had their hearts in the right place to begin with. But the intial decisions by the administration on implementing the liberal Judge's ruling, which created the duress and the crisis were purely political. It wans't until a relative few farmers and their supporters risked everything that things turned around.
Clearly, if had been Clinton, they wouldn't have turned around at all and there would have been a very nasty, probably violent result. I am thankful to this admin, that in the end, it didn't come to that ... but mostly thanksful to those couragous farmers and God in Heaven.
I pray now that the Bush administration will stick to their guns and keep the water flowing without political wrangling ... that they will just do what is right.
I hope so too. Will the farmers there be able to recover financially from the loss of water or are some irreparable harmed?