If you want a good measure of the Zeitgeist surrounding the Obama administration it's hard to find a better indicator than this: R. Emmett Tyrell, founder of the Scaife-funded American Spectator Magazine that published the original "Troopergate" story about Bill Clinton and generally hounded his administration with loathing at every turn, is now wishing Bubba was back:

Bill, can we now be friends? I apologize for all my past rudeness, even the jokes. It is a matter of public record that you have made friends with Dick Scaife. Allow me to be next. Let us convene a conference. We could explore market solutions to public problems and together we could promulgate a manifesto on free trade. I shall bring some friends from the Heritage Foundation and the Hoover Institution -- Ph.Ds. Perhaps we can plot how to re-reform welfare after the Obama Administration shanghais the poor back into the welfare trap. [snip]

With all of this hurly-burly going on I hope my new friend is not going to suffer the blues. In less than four years his presidency is going to be looked back on fondly by Democrats and even by me. I think it is increasingly evident that Bill's Democratic successor is the most ill-prepared man to serve as president in a long time.[snip]

So cheer up, Bill. Your legacy is going to look fine, save for that unmentionable run-in with what was her name again? Already things are turning against the Prophet. Just the other day Howard Fineman, writing on the Newsweek website, noted that "the American establishment is taking his [the president's] measure and, with surprising swiftness, they are finding him lacking." Bill, let's have a beer.

A bit tongue and cheek, yes, and therefore probably less effective than when a less ideological centrist libertarian makes the same argument. Still, it not good for Obama that an arch-enemy of the former Democratic administration is so unimpresseded with his performance he'd rather see Bill back in the White House.