It has all the earmarks of a Machiavellian ploy.

If you do get turfed out of office, be sure that you've left enough crap-traps behind that the next administration gets blamed for the doings of the previous administration. That way, you have a better chance of getting back in in the next election.

Replaces poison and dagger-thrusts in dark hallways, which, in these enlightened (??) days, are much too obvious and are generally frowned upon.

Elementary, my dear Borgia. . . .

Don Firth