Given yesterday’s festivities, it was pretty easy to miss out on some of the more memorable Thanksgiving moments on cable news– most of us were trying to keep our houses in order, after all. But should you have been awake at 6 AM and watching Fox News, you’d have found the party started way early, with Breitbart.tv’s Larry O’Connor counting down the “Top Five Turkeys Of 2011,” complete with a delicious-looking turkey leg and even more appealing bottle of Wild Turkey bourbon (to drown the pain caused by Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

With Americans increasingly becoming concerned about the state of income inequality in their country, a new report is showing that the disparity between the average American’s wealth and that of their Congressional representative is, to put it mildly, stark, with the Center for Responsive Politics reporting that nearly half of Congress is worth more than $1 million, and their total wealth increased 11% since 2009.

Yesterday, Rick Perry decided to challenge Nancy Pelosi to a debate, thus setting up Pelosi for the obvious alley-oop that was a Rick Perry-impression (or a “late night talk show host doing an impression of Rick Perry”-impression). Perry has since responded by bringing up the 60 Minutes story that alleged insider trading on the behalf of folks like Pelosi and John Boehner. Today on America’s Newsroom, Karl Rove helped theorize whether or not any of this will help Perry in the long run.

Earlier today, we brought you the hard-to-believe story that Texas Gov. Rick Perry sent a letter to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, challenging her to a debate on Monday. Pelosi’s response quickly underscored the problem with Perry’s challenge when she tweeted her response: “Re: Gov. Perry–Monday I’ll be in Portland. Later visiting labs in CA. That’s 2. I can’t remember the 3rd thing.”

I literally had to triple-check this to make sure it wasn’t some spoof site set up to look like The Hill, but it is the real deal. The Hill‘s GOP12 blog is reporting that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has challenged House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to…a debate. Yes, that Rick Perry.

It gets better, though. The site has obtained a letter from Gov. Perry, to Leader Pelosi, in which he challenges her to said debate on Monday in Washington, or if that doesn’t work…someplace in Iowa.

In the past week or so, the nation’s capital was all atwitter with the presence of Steve Kroft and his 60 Minutes crew, who were reported to be investigating the cozy relationships between members of congress and business leaders affected by legislation passed by congress itself. Tonight the segment aired, featuring some classic 60 Minutes style ambush questions — in a press room setting — in which Kroft challenged both Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner may have benefited from stock purchases based on non-public information they’d received.

Martin Bashir spoke with TheGrio‘s Goldie Taylor on his MSNBC show Thursday about Herman Cain‘s controversy over his calling Nancy Pelosi “Princess Nancy” and bluntly asked her if the Republican candidate “was a clown or a candidate?”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (or, if you prefer, the artist also known as “Princess Nancy”) paid a visit to The Daily Show Wednesday night. She offered a solution for reducing the national debt: Put the Super Committee on TV.

After Wednesday night’s GOP debate on CNBC, candidate Herman Cain was asked about the booing that took place when he was asked about the allegations against him, as well as his decision to refer to Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy.”

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has been taking heavy criticism over a joking reference to Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren‘s physical appearance, including from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. The cast of ABC’s The View weighed in on the controversy today, and took Brown’s side. The discussion included a loose grasp of the facts, and an interpretation of Brown’s comment, from Whoopi Goldberg, that even the most imaginative press flack couldn’t have thought up.

In case you hadn’t heard, Glenn Beck isn’t a fan of the Occupy Wall Street protests. However, unlike some others in the media he isn’t just laughing them off as silly hippies. On the contrary, the protesters should be comforted to know that Beck respects them a great deal. In fact, he respects them enough to think that they’re this close to dragging rich people into the street and murdering them.

In an exclusive interview on This Week today, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi weighed in on the minor controversy between Massachusetts senator Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren over what can only be described as “No-Clothes-Gate,” and criticized the senator for being “clueless” about how he may have disrespected Warren with his commends.

Andrew Breitbart has, once again, gone too far. At a speech this weekend at Tea Party convention TeaCon, Breitbart attempted to serve the crowd red meat while being wildly profane, going off on Rep. Nancy Pelosi for being a “bitch” and joking that chronically irrelevant liberal person Janeane Garofalo was “Hollywood’s sympathy f*ck,” therefore negating the validity of her opinions. In doing so, Breitbart crossed a fairly thick line: there is a way to give the crowd red meat without slaughtering one’s own reputation in the process.

Last night, Rachel Maddow compared billionaire candidate Mitt Romney to fictional billionaire Thurston Howell III. If you’re looking for a rich-person caricature, there is no better person to cite than the oil baron of Gilligan’s Island. But it seems that 2011 is the year where both liberals and conservatives are pulling out the “You’re more like Thurston Howell than I am” card.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi faced a fair bit of criticism today while addressing her constituents during a town hall meeting in Oakland, California. The crowd demonstrated its disapproval of Pelosi’s vote in the debt ceiling deal by shouting “Sell out!” and repeatedly asking her to explain why she voted in favor of something she had just admitted she “did not like at all.”

The highlight (?) of the meeting was, without a doubt, the irate shouts of “You voted for that Satan sandwich!” God, the heartburn.

It’s hard out there for a page. Today, House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued a statement announcing that the House of Representatives’ page program would be coming to an end because, essentially, technology has rendered the need for pages obsolete. You may choose to read this as “email had made it so that kids don’t have to trip over their loafers to deliver manila envelops containing games of tic tac toe played between Boehner and Pelosi” or “coldly calculating robots are steadily pushing insufferable, acne-ridden politics nerds down the evolutionary chain until they become extinct.”

After weeks and weeks of toil, doomsday scenarios and failed bills, the compromise agreed to this weekend between legislative Democrats and Republicans and the White House has finally passed the lower chamber of Congress by a simple majority. It goes on to the Senate tomorrow, where it is also expected to pass. The occasion was marked by a moving return to the House floor: that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who had been absent since the tragic shooting that almost claimed her life in Tucson.

Democratic Minority Leader in the House Nancy Pelosi certainly has a way with words. At a press conference today, she attempted to remind everyone just how vital the ongoing debt negotiations are not only for America’s future, but also for every living, breathing organism throughout the entire planet!

Rep. David Wu will not seek reelection in 2012, but staffers tell POLITICO the congressman has no intentions of stepping down now despite allegations that the Oregon Democrat had an “unwanted sexual encounter” with the teenage daughter of a close friend last Thanksgiving. “He isn’t going to be running for reelection,” a Wu adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told POLITICO late Sunday night. “But he hasn’t done anything that rises to the level of requiring him to resign.”

Oregon Congressman David Wu is facing an accusation from a teenage woman of engaging her in an “unwanted sexual encounter” last November. The teen was described by Fox News as a “daughter of a longtime Wu friend and campaign donor,” who had refrained from accusing him previously because she believed she did not have sufficient evidence.

During the brief period in which Donald Trump somehow became the Republican frontrunner in the 2012 race, many considered his greatest strength to be his reputation as a formidable businessman and experience managing money. Naturally, this meant he had quite a few things to say about the current budget debate in Congress, but despite his disapproval of President Obama, most of his criticism was focused on the “scared” Republicans who he chided for “folding.”

The DC media’s jaw-dropping obsession with the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal will peter out when the New York congressman officially resigns this afternoon. But there’s no better illustration of how this story came to consume the press than the video below.

Democrats had been prepared to up the pressure on Weiner to resign Thursday, but not before House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi held her weekly press availability in a large studio in the basement of the Capitol Visitors Center.

After a week of tense silence from the Democratic leadership, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz have stated their wish for Rep. Anthony Weiner to step down from his position in Congress. This statement comes in light of the recent discovery that the police are currently investigating his interactions with an underaged girl over the internet.

Chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus declared on Today that Nancy Pelosi’s silence in not demanding Weiner’s immediate resignation was “outrageous.” Meredith Vieira wondered whether constituents should be able to decide his fate rather than the Democratic leadership, yet Priebus was unfazed in his call for the Weiner distraction to be put away as quickly as possible.

Former President Bill Clinton’s advisor James Carville appeared with George Stephanopoulos to discuss the question of whether Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner could survive this scandal. Although many would argue Clinton’s controversy was much worse and he survived, Carville hinted at what ultimately might be the major difference between the two men: Weiner doesn’t seem to be particularly liked by elected Democrats.