The winning strategy was to find some balls and brains and propose a balanced budget... you know, do their jobs.
The debt shot up by $54 billion in just the 8 days before they caved and cut a whole $38 billion. So we lost even more ground while playing tiddly-winks instead of fighting a war on irresponsible spending.
The one who wins a war, usually does it by perseverance and smarter tactics, of which Obama is woefully deficient.
And just exactly how would you have proposed getting it passed in the Senate and then the President signing it.