Great issues have a way of invoking greatness, even in the most unlikely of politicians.
There is no guide through troubled waters like duty. How times change. In the Senate, Joseph Lieberman raised the whole level of discussion several planes and was joined there by Bob Kerrey and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has made a habit of raising the level of public discourse. Let us think on such men the next time it's tempting to dismiss Congress with a wisecrack. It turns out that the Democratic Party has a conscience after all.