Who Lit The Fire Under the Right-Wing 'Populists' Against Health-Care Reform?

By now, we've all seen the angry "regular Americans" who are rising up to resist health-care reform. They are demonstrating loudly at town hall meetings. They are holding rallies. They are e-mailing all their friends and family about the absolute horrors that will accompany any government-run program of Obama-Care.

Who are these people? Where did they come from? Is this really how Americans feel about health-care reform?

I started digging a little into the organizing strategy behind this "grassroots" movement and found