To be historically accurate, this selling of snake oil with the grandiose titles of congressional acts goes back a long way. In the Roosevelt New Deal era, there was the "National Recovery Act," which was very much ballyhooed, but fortunately was short-circuited when the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. (Compare to today's SCOTUS, which doesn't have the guts to do the same with Obamacare's "individual mandate.") It essentially legalized cartels for wage and price fixing, something better suited to Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, or the communist regime in the Soviet Union. If it had lasted for any greater length of time, it would have delayed the actual economic recovery even longer than other socialist policies of the era actually did.
Then, too, the title of the "Social Security Act" was hardly accurate and invented specifically to sell it to the American people by the Democrats of that era.
Unfortunately, it seems as if big government has all too frequently needed these phony tags on legislation and programs since then in order grow into the humongous size it currently is.
Republicans have done it, too. Defense of Marriage Act really defended marriage from a sneak attack via the Full Faith and Credit clause, but No Child Left Behind Act?