Summer is over. Perhaps some measure of sanity will return to our nation. Marc Ambinder nicely sums up August's health care histrionics, and makes the case for why significant reform is not dead:

The more I think about the events in August, the more I think of professional wrestling. Lots of chair shots, blood and taunts, plenty of theater, but at the end of the day, everyone goes back to the locker room, changes out of their tights, and goes to the bar for a drink.