One of my least favorite politician games is when they're grandstanding about some problem and demanding some new power to address the problem, when they are al

One of my least favorite politician games is when they're grandstanding about some problem and demanding some new power to address the problem, when they are already empowered to address the problem somehow. The administrative agencies are particularly prone to this; many of them have quite surprisingly vast powers, but will then claim helplessness in the face of some particular problem unless they're given even more. But you dig in, and while perhaps maybe the exact thing they're asking for is out of their power, they've got several other options for fixing the problem... if "fixing the problem" was their actual priority. But legislatures play this game plenty too. (And that's not even mentioning the cases where they created the problem in the first place.)