Senator Manchin the moderate D from WV may help derail the more radical of these plans. And there may be a couple more beside him.
But he would be putting his life at risk, so we’ll see. He’s also up for reelection in two years in a very conservative state. That puts him between a rock and a hard place.
Here are some of his position from a recent interview on the more radical parts of the Rats agenda... (so it’s not quite time yet to break out the razor blades)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2011/10/nday.06.html
Manchin only votes with conservatives when his vote doesn’t matter.