GOP "transparency" push seen as attack on Michelle Obama

I really didn't get this, other than it being just plain GOP idiotic meanness, but then someone in comments noted - "They started this last January when it was strongly presumed that Bill Clinton would be the first spouse of the White House." So, now even though they didn't get the First Spouse they wanted to spy on, they'll take what they can get.

House Republicans are pressing for a change in federal law that could force Michelle Obama and future first ladies to do more of their policy work in public. But Democrats warn President Obama may take the attempt personally “as an attack on his wife.”

The GOP effort is being led by the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), whose initial salvo was rebuffed recently at a contentious committee markup session. Under Issa’s amendment, any government policy group that Mrs. Obama or another first spouse regularly participates in would be subject to a law requiring meetings to be announced in advance and, in most instances, public.

Um, No Darrell, unless you want to make First Spouse an elected office (kinda difficult) and cut them a paycheck. Skip to about 10:57 in the vid for discussion of the amendment.