Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was very pleased to read the Minister of Agriculture’s most recent post about the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Your Maximum Leader remembers seeing the Senator speak eloquently and insightfully on the floor of the Senate. Your Maximum Leader always sought out the Sunday morning talk shows that Moynihan was on. And your Maximum Leader always tried to read his columns and editorials in various newspapers and journals. Senator Moynihan was a principled and intelligent man who served our nation very well. Although Moynihan and your Maximum Leader wouldn’t share many political views, we shared a love of knowledge and intelligent discourse.

If it were possible to do so, your Maximum Leader would have voted for Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Requiscat in pace, Senator. There are none like you in that august body now. And, alas, it may be a long time before another like you is elected…

Carry on.