Your thread title is completely accurate...they've been pulling such stunts on a host of issues for several decades...it's been an old standby practice of the Ruling Class no matter what party controls the chamber...it is evidence of a decades-long attitude among the politicos that people really are stupid enough not to see through their tactics...that a small band of hearty conservatives, Tea Party members and Libertarians can see right through them never bothered them...not until some senior clowns got bounced...then like the rats they are the run for the cracks! And just like when the angry mobs took over townhall meetings they changed tactics, learning like their POTUS candidate handlers to avoid as much spontaneous contact with the people as possible and only attend packed and planted events and quickly usher out those neerdowell troublemakers when they pop off...
They'll do the same legislatively...expect super-secret-probabtion stealth legislation offerings next...