the gay buzz has been around for years, but now there s an on-line petition asking sesame street to let burt and ernie get married. that petition was dreamed up by gay activist blair scott. when i was nine years old, i wondered if they were a gay couple. there s been a lot of purely circumstantial evidence. they sleep in the same room. they take baths together. look at the photo on their wall. oh, sure, there are also counterindications. let s talk about burt s eyebrow. no self-respecting homosexual would leave a unibrow like that unplucked. it s there s one thing gays do, it s pluck. they ve been together for 41 years, and just as folks speculated tinky winky with the purse is gay, rumors have swirled around the muppets. burt, not gay, ernie, very gay. and no matter how hard you ve tried, ernie, and i ve tried,
ahead to shake up the republican presidential race. perry, a social and fiscal conservative and evangelical christian, is widely expected to jump in tomorrow. now, he was not wrong the eight republican candidates who debated in iowa last night. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty tried to break out of the pack. he repeatedly zinged fellow minnesotan michele bachmann. she s fighting for these things. she fought for less government spending. we got a lot more. she led the effort against obamacare. we got obamacare. she led the effort against t.a.r.p. we got t.a.r.p. it s her record of results we re woired about. if that s your record, please stop because you re killing us. well, bachmann shot back, accusing pawlenty of abandoning conservative principles, republican candidates are going to compete tomorrow in an iowa presidential straw poll. it s an informal nonbinding survey open to voters who pay a fee. military operations are reported on the outskirts of syria s capi
kind of a day will it be? another wild ride? well, some won t mind if it s wild in the right direction. though, we have seen a historic week of volatility. also huge changes at the u.s. postal service. administrators there are asking congressional approval to lay off 120,000 people. you heard me right. also across in great britain and all across great britain now the riots die down a little bit now and maybe life getting back to normal in london. nearly 2,000 people have been arrested in in connection with the violence and looting there we have seen over the past week. maybe you didn t stay up and catch the republican presidential debate last night, but let me tell you what you missed. you missed a doozie. it was a heck of a night with high tensions and stakes for some, it could have been a make or break event of their campaigns and some will even tell you today that maybe at least one person on that stage was broken last night. we will get back into that. meanwhile, th
inside a hospital in somalia to remind us that they aren t statistics, they are people in pain. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room . after weeks of blatant political flirting, the texas governor rick perry is now ready to commit. cnn has learned he will major a formal campaign announce mementd our new poll, jim, shows he will be very competitive. that s right. he comes in the top tier, wolf, you re right, rick perry, according to a source close to the governor has told cnn that the texas governor will be announcing he s running for president on saturday. he will be doing this, not in iowa where most of the republican kaechbts are right now. he will be at a red state.com, conservative blog conference that s occurring in charleston, south carolina. now we understand that the texas governor is going to put aside any doubts. he is running for president. you mentioned that cnn poll, wolf he is as close as the republican parties gets to an un-romney. rudy giuliani, w