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Time Magazine has a ranking of America's governors out. Lousiana's Kathleen Blanco is at the bottom.

TOPEKA, Kan. - Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has been named one of the five best governors in the nation by Time magazine.

Sebelius, a Democrat, was elected in 2002 "by winning the governor's race in a state where Republicans outnumber Democrats almost 2 to 1," the magazine said Sunday in a news release.

"Through spending cuts, fee increases and some borrowing, Sebelius was able to balance Kansas' budget in her first year in office without raising taxes or cutting funding for education," the magazine said. . . .

Time's worst governors were Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana, Bob Taft of Ohio and South Carolina's Mark Sanford.

One has to assume that this ranking is a reflection of Blanco's horrendous handling of the Katrina disaster. The media and America's political left exerted a lot of energy blaming Bush on Katrina, but the people who were paying attention know where to lay the blame and Blanco deserves a lion's share of it.

On an unrelated note, it's odd that North Dakota's John Hoeven didn't make the top five. Our state has an unemployment rate hovering around 3%, an approval rating consistently in the mid-70's and a $100 million budget surplus. You'd think that'd warrant a top ranking.

I can't find the whole list, so who knows. Maybe he still did rank near the top.

Update:

Blanco lied, people died.