Those were good time during the halcyon days of the W Bush administration, when extraordinary rendition and waterboarding and other forms of torture - I mean, enhanced interrogation - were the way to deal with stuff.
But when the Man from Texas nominated Michael Mukasey to be the nation's next Attorney General, you would think that Democrats had shit themselves.
We had a war to fight with evil doers, and whatever it took to get the bad guys was acceptable, whether it was constitutional or not.
So yes, it does seem rather petty that Republicans are blocking the nomination of Loretta Lynch, over immigration policy that has nothing to do with national security. But there you have it.