Well, ninth time is the charm! CBS:

In so doing, the Michigan Democrat raised the specter of a House floor vote by Thanksgiving on contempt of Congress citations against chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former legal counsel Harriet Miers.

That would certainly give us something to be thankful for!

“I am writing one more time to seek to resolve this issue on a cooperative basis,” Conyers said in a letter to White House counsel Fred Fielding.

Conyers wants testimony and documents from Bolten and Miers on whether the Justice Department’s purge of nine federal prosecutors last winter was carried out at the White House’s behest.

Also in Conyers’ sights: Karl Rove, the architect of Mr. Bush’s rise to the White House and a top political adviser who left last summer.

A contempt report had not been delivered to the House clerk Monday morning. If Fielding refuses to provide the information the Judiciary panel is demanding, the House could vote on the contempt citation before it recesses for Thanksgiving on Nov. 16.

Last recess, they caved to Bush and gutted the Fourth Amendment on FISA, blaming him for “stampeding” them. Gaws knows what they’ll do this time.

Fielding has declared that the information Conyers seeks is off-limits to lawmakers under the doctrine of executive privilege.

Keeping the U.S. attorney controversy alive are several political and administrative developments, including the pending Senate vote on the confirmation of Michael Mukasey as attorney general. Unlike former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Mukasey during his confirmation hearings did not rule out prosecuting Miers and Bolten for contempt of Congress.

The committee was expected to file the contempt report with the clerk of the House later Monday, several Democratic officials said. If passed by the House, the contempt citation would be referred to the office of the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

In what he said was his ninth letter to the White House on this issue, Conyers said he was trying one last time to reach an agreement on the release of the information.

Mukasey didn’t “rule out” prosecutions for contempt. How gracious is Lord Mukasey, and how glad I am that Our Betters have placed him over us!