No budget, no vacation

'That's Speaker Fabian Nunez's mantra for the coming days (or weeks) as the stalemate continues, the Sacramento Bee reports and courtesy of the California Majority Report..

The legislature was supposed to go into recess this Friday, but Assembly members are being asked to remain "on call" and within an hour of the capitol. Maybe the Republicans can finally explain to us where the extra $2 billion will come from.

Fabian Núñez ordered members of the lower house to cancel vacations until the state's budget stalemate ends.

Numerous Assembly members, including Núñez and Assembly Republican leader Mike Villines, have had to cancel family trips because of the standoff.