PolitiCal Roundup: A nudge for the GOP, Meg Whitman goes corporate

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-- Play politics, The Times’ George Skelton urges Republicans, who he says have benched themselves from the budget debate.

-- Where is Meg Whitman now? Serving on various corporate boards, including Zipcar’s.

-- Retired cyclist Lance Armstrong began his cigarette-tax campaign in California.

-- Lance Corcoran never shrank from a fight. The pithy voice of the powerful state prison guards’ union through some of its biggest battles, has died.