Tracking down the optimists’ view

I sent a letter to Commentary’s Contention’s blog, which I think is one of the absolute best blogs around:

One of the things that’s refreshing about your blog, especially Jennifer Rubin’s posts, is the belief that the disasters of the Obama administration, at home and abroad, can be rolled back through the 2010 and 2012 elections.  I like that optimism.

On the other side, I’m getting more and more emails from friends and readers positing this:  Obama’s next step, as he’s already announced, is immigration reform, which means amnesty.  Amnesty in turn means 30 million new Democratic votes and a permanent Democratic majority.  Obama will successfully achieve this goal because those Democrats who have already destroyed their careers over the health care vote have nothing to lose now by furthering the Progressive dream and voting for amnesty.  Moreover, if the Obama calculus is correct about the permanent change in ballot demographics, Democratic Congressmen truly have nothing to lose because new voters mean permanent power.  Democrats have the beauty of a happy Hobson’s choice, with no bad outcomes.

This is a scary world view, and one that’s a bit easier to contemplate after Sunday’s vote.  What does the team of optimists at Contentions have to say to this much bandied-about theory?

I wonder if they’ll have an answer to my question.