We’re sweltering out here in California…

Go ahead, make fun of us out here in California. We have…

* America’s worst governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger-Shriver-Kennedy, who has spent the past 5 years destroying this once-great state.

* The worst state Legislature in the nation, run by Democrats who make Kim Jong Il look like Ronald Reagan.

* A $60 billion state budget deficit.

* The highest taxes in the nation.

* Looming tax hikes.

* A crumbling infrastructure.

Yeah, but the last 4 days in Southern California we’ve been enjoying temperatures of from 75-85 degrees Fahrenheit. I’m ready to install an air conditioner.

In California, the government may tax you out of a job. You may be living on the street, eating government cheese (paid for by somebody else’s taxes). But you can still go down to the beach in the middle of January in your bathing suit and get a suntan.

So, denizens of Bad Weather states and Canadian provinces, as you suffer another cold spell — it’s minus-40 degrees F in Minnesota, or 125 degrees colder than out here — keep our balmy weather in mind as you gloat, as you ought to, over the foibles of California’s corrupt, dysfunctional, idiotic government, including not just its elected officials but — this being a democracy — its voters.

We’ll be lounging on the beach in 80-degree weather trying to avoid a sunburn.