Iran: NO! The place to stop this was in stopping the Corker Bill, which Cruz voted FOR. There is an easy way to stop this friggin' treaty: KILL IT IN THE SENATE, where Cruz is a member. Here's the bottom line. If Cruz doesn't have enough influence, smarts, ability to get a vote against this treaty in the Senate, then he's not going to be an effective president.
Obamacare: NO! Introduce a simple repeal Obamacare bill. I'm stunned that NO ONE in either the House or the Senate has done this yet. It's the quickest way to get everyone on record as for or against Obamacare with no other camoflage.
On and on. This is the most ineffectual ways to try to do anything because they will just override each amendment in part then pass the original bill and say, "Oh, I voted against that because it was a highway bill, not the treaty."
We differ - greatly. We have tried tactical, strategic and all forms of in-between tactics and they have been for naught. Our leadership is morally and ethically compromised in every aspect of what they profess to be.
Right now, all I’m looking for during the remainder of Obama’s tenure is to keep money out of his hands that helps him to further destroy us. Frankly, the incrementalism of your suggested approach is just another form of limited bargaining that starts out with the premise the people you are dealing with are open to compromise, are trustworthy and will do what they say. They have shown they won’t. They won’t even obey current laws. No. Not in my world. Not ever. No money, no new power, no quarter.