Here's a very touching elegy about Senator Wellstone written by, of all people, Peggy Noonan. The same tone that I tend to find so annoying when she writes about issues and politics really works in this context (via Cursor)

UPDATE: For those of you googling over, thanks to Charles Pierce, the aforereferenced elegy was one she wrote before his memorial service. Pierce is referring to a piece she wrote afterwards, a more typical one for the Dolphin Queen, which used the convention of Wellstone meeting past Democratic icons in Heaven to denounce the living.