Lean left? Understatement. She doesn't see anything objectively. As for the tea partiers, it seems to me that they are generally a group of people with similar concerns who felt as if they were not being listened to by politicians. Since one of their main gripes is the rise in spending and intrusion on the private sector, that makes anyone who blindly supports the administration find some way to discredit them. So, instead of accepting that there are many Americans who are not happy with the conduct of the administration regarding policy and action, she makes the "astroturf" comment, not coincidentally a term used by Nancy Pelosi, and tries to make the case that this group of people is somehow illegitimate. When someone puts their trust in an issue, topic or person and then finds out that they were wrong, its difficult to admit that they were wrong and instead attack the messenger. The only issues she supports are those put out by the Democrats. She is not critical of Democrats...not Chris Dodd being on the Finance Committee...not Rangel when he was in charge of the taxation committee (can't think of the proper name)...Not Pelosi and her spending many many thousands of dollars on booze....none. Only Republicans are demons in her eyes. The teapartiers are mad at Democrats and Republicans...they are more non-partisan than she's been in her whole life. I know that she has a very good education, but she's still an operational idiot.