Dumber than I’d thought: She doesn’t even know what “hoax” means. The Piltdown Man was a hoax. She means (and later said) a distraction or decoy. ... which is also wrong, but at least it’s the concept she had in mind.
A hoax would be Congress trying to prove it’s accomplished anything in the time since the Democrats took over.
Idiot can’t be spelled without a “D.”