In town for the big governors meeting, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has offered this sage advice to President Bush: Build a smoking tent on the White House lawn.

“In the courtyard in our state capital, I have a politically incorrect smoking tent,” the governor said at the National Press Club yesterday. “People come in there, Democrats and Republicans, and they take off their jackets and rip off their ties, and they sit down and smoke a stogie, and they talk, and they schmooze.”

(Orgy?)

“Sometimes there is white smoke coming out. And sometimes black smoke,” Schwarzenegger added. “My smoking tent is always very, very busy, I can tell you.”

Oh, we definitely believe him. But cigars did nothing to help increase bipartisanship during Bill Clinton’s time in office.