What will be interesting is that 95% of Senate Democrats will stand in solid opposition to the last, and perhaps most important, public policy Moynihan was advocating: reform and partial privatization of Social Security. It was on issues like that that Moynihan was the true "conscience" of the Senate -- on the Clinton scandals, he was like all the other "pols"... he looked the other way and "kicked the can down the road." But for those moments of rare political courage, he will be missed.