Turn Out the Lights, the Party's Over

The New Mexico GOP needs a mercy killing

The patient can’t be saved. And keeping it alive a moment longer isn’t compassion. It’s cruelty.

Thursday, a “record-high $8.47 billion budget that would boost state government spending … by nearly 14 percent in the upcoming fiscal year passed the House on a 56-13 vote.” Over 40 percent of the chamber’s Republicans supported HB2.

Saturday, the Senate appr…