It's one of the many thing I like about C-SPAN Washington Journal . . . It ain't "Hardball."
I agree, whole-heartedly. And that's why it's on CSPAN (Cable and Satellite Public Affairs Network -- okay, I'm just showing off) instead of someplace that cares about ratings and wants some fireworks. Sad, but true. Washington Journal is slow-moving, calm, pre-first-cup-of-coffee kind of stuff -- informative, but not exciting.
A commercial cable or broadcast net would have had Reppenhagen and Ubaldi on the set a the same time so they could shout at each other. CSPAN has them on in turn, each free to make his case for a good long time, not interrupted by ads or stepped on by the host. I like that approach. It's good for an informed democracy, and a valuable resource for the relatively few folks who make use of it.