Hate it when that happens.
What about the Mid-Term Election Cruise Missile Strike of 1998? Just a quick thought that came to mind without any research. Clinton needed a distraction about that time...something to emphasize to the Republicans that they were playing with fire. A lot of parallels between then and now.
And before you say that strike was justified, you will know that your opponent here will say this peaceful deployment to support the law is also justified. If were just looking for a pissing match, we have those all day here. The point is that each side has its list of abuses, and each side thinks its own abuses are not actually abuses. As long as we can't see the viewpoint of the other side, things will not change.
For the record, I see your point.
(You could probably come up with dozens of instances from 1860-1890, by the way. One of the best kept secrets of history is how fast an loose Abraham Lincoln played with the Constitution.)