to sort through the issues and get up to speed. But you don’t need to be fully up to speed to see some flaws in the Mike Allen/Manuel Roig-Franzia front-pager in this morning’s Washington Post. Here’s graph 3: “The extraordinary intervention by Washington for a single person, in a wrenching question that families typically wrestle with in private, required a Saturday session of the Senate during Easter recess and will bring both chambers back to the Capitol on Palm Sunday.” Hmm. . . wonder which side our reporters are on? Graph 6: “The legislation, which congressional leaders said they plan to pass today or tomorrow, would prolong a medical and legal drama that has pitted the incapacitated Florida woman’s husband against her parents.” Just getting this woman dead already would certainly be quicker.

The story also mentions the Senate Republican memo on the political upside of this fight. Whoever wrote it should be canned.