“Nope because Obama simply has to refuse to sign a piecemeal approach.”
Let him refuse to sign the piecemeal legislation. Even a third tier public relations firm can develop a campaign to win that argument in social media, on talk radio, and even in the mainstream press. Whether or not the GOP can follow the script is another matter.
nope, it will never come to that, because the Republicans elites would scramble to give him whatever he demanded, because they stated from the start they would not shut down the government under any circumstance.
So they send him a bill only funding the military or social security or whatever and he says, NOPE I wont sign a stand alone bill, send me a bill funding everything or I will veto it, and if you dont like that, shut down the government!
And the GOPe runs to give him what he wants, because they have already said they would not under any circumstances shut down the government.