Yes its true, my admittedly lackluster post yesterday about the Tea Parties brought me a new fan.  Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon decided my lowly post was more worthy than any of the dozens or hundreds out there.

Let’s be honest, my blog is at best a D List wanna be.  I don’t have a huge hoard of loyal readers, just a few who get something from my writing.

I’m OK with that, though I admit that someday when the day job is less of a priority, I hope to make a much larger impact.

So it is always gratifying when one of the more popular blogs sits up and takes notice.  I recall a few occasions when Kos and other lefties have taken umbrage at something I said.

But generally, I expect that when I am being snarky and in depth on a hot issue.  I did not expect that on the Tea Parties.  In my blog yesterday I deliberately took a position that avoided the issues and just celebrated the Tea Parties for what they were:  wonderful exercises in free speech, assembly and petitioning the Government.  I noted that even the liberal mockery was something to celebrate as it was proof that they had an impact.

I could not make any of the local Tea Parties, to my great disappointment.

So rather than try and express my own thoughts, I collected links from the day, via Memeorandum.

These links are the good, the bad, the positive and the negative and the fair and the biased.  Browse to your hearts content.

My only comment is that the tea parties made a huge impact, not just on the people bragging about them, but also on the liberals belittling them.

In other words…they worked. I have rarely seen this many links on a single topic…

Scenes From the DC Tea Party: More Photos! — Here’s a supplement to Aaron’s great photo spread from this afternoon’s rally. — Remember: Fox News reported on these rallies. It didn’t promote them! — This was a popular theme, along with references to images of President Obama’s bow to the King of Saudi Arabia.

A NASHVILLE TEA PARTY PICTURE from InstaPundit reader Kathie Fuston

Amanda Terkel / Think Progress: DC Tea Party Protesters Agree: ‘Chairman Maobama’ …

Amanda Marcotte / pandagon.net: Royalists want a little revolutionary action of their own

I love this guy, just for having the brass to say this:

Perry fires up anti-tax crowd

I have to pause and note that the editor slanted the headlinew by calling these rallys “anti Tax” when they are more than that, they are anto waste. anto stupid spending, and most importantly pro responsiblity.

Not that it surpises me.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states’ rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, “Secede!”

An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall — one of three tea parties he was attending across the state — that officials in Washington have abandoned the country’s founding principles of limited government. He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt.

Perry repeated his running theme that Texas’ economy is in relatively good shape compared with other states and with the “federal budget mess.” Many in the crowd held signs deriding President Barack Obama and the $786 billion federal economic stimulus package.