After all, next to big-ticket administration horrors like Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and the politicized hiring and firing at Alberto Gonzales's Justice Department, the wreckage of Iraq reconstruction is what Ralph Kramden of "The Honeymooners" would dismiss as "a mere bag of shells".
Because many viewers who tuned in to the one and only vice presidential debate this cycle wanted to hear the candidates comment more on the top of the ticket and administration plans, it gave Pence a chance to get through it without having to answer tough questions about his own legacy on LGBT rights.
Leeds Rhinos are to allow Bradford Bulls to keep all the proceeds from the tickets the administration-hit club sell for Friday's derby at Headingley.
During his administration, ticket revenues and contributions grew, but the company also endured a wave of employee departures, protest resignations by angry trustees and a drift of donors unsettled by what critics called Mr. Spisto's mercurial management style.
The furloughs will be in sales, marketing, public relations, finance, community relations, stadium and ticket operations, and general administration.
To drive home his point on the difference in the approaches to Medicare by the Republican ticket and the Obama administration, Mr. Romney drew numbers on a white board positioned on an easel before television cameras.
Questions have emerged about his ability to authorize more US war in Iraq, but the existing logic of addressing an expansively-defined "imminent threat" serves as the administration's ticket to hitting wherever and however it wants.
From my vantage point, stuck on Cairo's Nile Corniche as an ambulance tried to make its way through the gridlock while Morsi boasted of the record number of traffic tickets issued by his administration, it all sounded somewhat tragicomic.
The House of Commons transport committee called for an end to years of government prevarication on rail fares, which has seen successive administrations alter ticket pricing policies from one year to the next.
There seems to be a lack of understanding that the current slate of Republican party representatives, who have embraced Donald Trump and his administration as their ticket to ride roughshod over the American public, mean them no good, and – in fact – are quite indifferent to their pain, suffering, and even their demise.
Could he imagine the co-chairman of his first national race having a place on a McCain ticket or in a McCain administration?
