That's a pretty transparent trick and I don't think it would fly, but Obama did say his administration would be transparent!
Over,
Politics is in fact Strategic warfare and this type actions by bothsides happen all the time. One side will create what is a fiction in the hopes of hooking in the otherside and once they take the bait, they turn it on them. You don't think Kennedy for example used his ideas on education that were the foundation of "No Child Left Behind" towards some higher purpose but rather as a trade off for democrat support for Bush's war and then later on in backchannels, the democrats in their own astroturf if you will beat Bush over the head as an education liberal for carrying Kennedy water eg Bush is a closet liberal. They knew what Bush was, they were just trying to scare the red-state crowd at the next election cycle.
If something is so wonderful, why let someone else put their name and fingerprint on it and more important, why let the opposing party get all the credit? Clinton and Gore publically stated they had an idea to privatize social security not unlike the Bush idea yet how did the republicans respond? Impeachment ring a bell? When the repubs' brought up basically the same idea during the Bush years, the democrats rightly responded then, "Oh no, Homey ain't gonna play that now!" In other words, the rules and advantage had changed so we're gonna do something else for now.
Even in legislation itself, you might say for example find some section purposed in an agriculture bill that does such and so and it effects to the positive a certain Congressman or even a political party. But then in transportation bill, the opposing party who might see an opportunity to profit in a certain district or state in the next election will include in a transportation bill, legislation that completely negates any benefit from the agricultural bill. The Congressman or party after the Agri bill passed told certain voters that such and such benefits would come to them and when the Transportation bill counters this, the Congressman and/or his party look like liars to the voters and then the opposing party exploits this come election time. This crap happens all the time and bothsides do it nonstop to each other. To them, it's just a political game they feed on but to average folk like us, it could mean everything.
It's all gamesmanship so never forget that.