Remember the rambunctious, rebellious House Republican class of 2010, like California’s Jeff Denham? These days, the flame-throwers have turned into fixers.
With the climax of the 2014 midterm season at hand, some Republicans who rode the conservative wave to power are waging campaigns that are barely recognizable from the ones they ran four years ago. In 2010, they were fire-breathing tea partiers who promised to storm the gates of Washington. Today, they’re staid members of Congress, offering low-key promises of empathy, problem-solving and even bipartisanship as they look to survive tough reelection challenges.
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