Financial regulation is rarely invoked as a Conservative achievement.
With all parties struggling to address what Labour leader Ed Miliband has called the "cost of living crisis", Clegg wants to drive home the message that raising the allowance from £6,475 in 2010 to £10,000 by 2014-15, takingy taroundaround half a million people out of income tax altogether, is a Lib Dem rather than a Conservative achievement.
He ticked off a number of recent conservative achievements by the Republican-led legislature, including, as Turzai put it, "Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done".
The remark was made by Mike Turzai, the state's House majority leader, when he spoke over the weekend to a meeting of the Republican State Committee and ticked off a number of recent conservative achievements by Pennsylvania's Republican-led legislature.
But this undersells the sweater-vested social conservative's achievement.
The trio wrote that Democratic "momentum has stalled" in recent months because the party has failed to focus on "the economic and health care battles that most engage anti-Trump voters," and because "Republican base voters, especially white working-class men, could finally point to a signature conservative policy achievement in the new tax cut law". .
Success in revamping Social Security, it went on, would "rank as one of the most significant conservative governing achievements ever".Social Security, created in 1935 by Franklin Roosevelt, is America's biggest and most popular government programme, providing pensions to the elderly and disabled.
Proud of his country's achievements, conservative prime minister Donald Tusk told the Financial Times (January 27th) that Poland's success is based "on the fundamental values of freedom, private property, competitiveness, and a limited role of the state".
Barro likes to claim that market monetarism, which he insists has been a big winner, is an achievement of conservative reformers.
That this council passed this law in a notoriously conservative state is an achievement that signals a great social milestone in Montana.
But Brat's win is a startling achievement for the conservative wing of the GOP, and it will provide new momentum for a Tea Party movement that, just a few weeks ago, was being written off after its candidates failed to win in a handful of challenges to lesser politicians.
