A discombobulated team of Democratic senators will strain valiantly to hold it up. This team is hardly a fine-tuned demolition machine like the Ravens or the Giants. Without planning it that way, Democratic senators tend towards the good cop, bad cop strategy when dealing with ruffian Republicans.
Democratic senators excel at backroom backslapping or cultivating the grass roots.
The backroom negotiators persuade senators directly. One observer compared the Senate minority leader's job to herding cats. That makes South Dakota's Senator Tom Daschle Dr. Dolittle. Which is to say that he has a following because he talks and listens. The more he has vetted things, the more comfortable he is.