WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THESE PEOPLE?

By "people" I mean GOP politicians. We have wackjobs like Rep. Michelle Bachmann who would be hard to believe in a political satire and as I was reading a Thomas Frank column, I came across this bit of absurdity by Rep. Darell Issa, courtesy of the WaPo:

Parental Leave Passes Committee as Foe Foresees Families Stocking Up on Kids
By Joe Davidson
Thursday, May 7, 2009

To Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, legislation that would allow Frankie and Flo Fed four paid weeks of leave following the birth, adoption or fostering of a child is a dollar sign -- $850 million over five years.

Issa is concerned that federal employees could adopt children year after year after year, all the while collecting those four weeks of paid annual leave.

Workers "could have one adoption or one foster child per year, resulting in every year you get a new foster child, every year the husband and wife if they are both federal workers would take four weeks off with pay, because they have simply taken in a new foster child," he said before the vote.