first of all would what we said brit hume is you have got to start delivering results. net roots conventions as you want. if we have got 10% unemployment and key cities across this nation. no one is going to care about the net roots convention or what they said. have you got to deliver, right? number one, that s the most important thing. you have to deliver. here is the thing. it s got to be more than delivery. it s goes to be messaging. if it was just delivery, the president auto could say he signed a stimulus bill. he bailed out the banks and everything. laura: it s unpopular though, juan. i said some people may not like it. laura: most people don t like it? he has done something about financial regulatory reform reigned in the excesses of wall street. he has a record of some accomplishment. it s that record has not translated into popularity with the american people. and i think now you are seeing. laura: he is not delivering. i m sorry?
amnesty plan disguised an an educational initiative. like all amnesties it rewards illegal behavior. it encourages more. that is a debate ramos says they are ready for. this is about giving them an opportunity to prove that they re what this country needs. reporter: kate bolduan, cnn, washington. keep fighting for change. that was the message hat this weekend s net roots convention in las vegas. nancy pelosi was one of the speakers, appealing to hundreds of liberal activists. we ll see if this helps democrats hold onto congress come this november.
for net roots nation 2011 in minneapolis, minnesota. between now and then. between now and then. between now and then, we ve got to work hard. and have got to stay passionate and stick together. thank you for all you have done. for all you ll do for progressives this year. see you next year in minneapolis. thank you. that is minnesota senator al franken giving the key note address tonight to the net roots convention in las vegas, nevada. providing red meat to democratic audience, a partisan audience there. listening to his comments. we re going to go around the table and have a discussion about what he said and what it
jokes people being home in their pajamas driving the vote. the only people covering this idiotic convention is fox news. why is that, ann? because you re fair and balanced. fair and balanced. thank you very much, ann coulter. i ve been in the back rooms with politicans. bottom line, they don t go anywhere unless it influences the debate and the dialogue. you wouldn t have had nancy pelosi and harry reid speaking to a net roots convention unless they thought it was important to them and their caucuses. harry reid has to go. nancy pelosi is from san francisco. did anyone catch harry reid s speech? what did you think about nano well ? did you catch any of the speech? goodness gracious. i took a nap. it was all he could do to say capitalism is bad and rich people are horrible. it was awful. he is doing so much to promote
we re doing. we re watching the net roots convention in las vegas. this is the last speaker, we re told, before al franken comes out. we re expecting to hear what is on al franken s mind. we re told it should be a very interesting speech. more or less, it s sort of the last speech of this very interesting conference that s going on. it will set the stage and drive the debate, perhaps, of what the bloggers are thinking as they go back to continue the job of blogging. interesting to me, though, is how the politicans, kiersten, have really come to these events and have made them very important. well, i think that s exactly because of all the reasons that doug is saying. i think that you want these are people, even though there s only 2000 people, i think it s a lot of people. it s not 10,000, but it s a decent amount. there are a lot of people following it. they have a lot of influence over people who read them. it s how barack obama tapped into the fund raiding network. i think it s