It would be excellent if—when Arnold Schwarzenegger arrives at the White House to ask for a $7 billion loan for California—George Bush put on an Austrian accent and told him “Don’t be an economic girlie-man!”

I bet Schwarzenegger would really get a kick out of it.

SCHWARZENEGGER: There is another way you can tell you’re a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people, and faith in the U.S. economy. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don’t be economic girlie men!