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johnny and captain dane were huge [ laughter ]. >> bob: guzman totally leaving his strike zone and his comfort area. hits it hard. he have sap longoria right there, two outs. and the nats have one out to work with and, ironically, it's nick johnson who made the error that led to the kapler homerun. verizon fios notice xtra is next with-ony and ray. lots of things to talk about in this one. unfortunately, two errors that gave the rays two runs might be two of the most important things they talk about. here is nick johnson, 1-for-4, breaking ball outside. j p howell in he is sons essence, trying to save -- in essence trying to save this game for himself much he is the pitcher of record here. 1 ball, 1 strike to nick. they have a right hander up in case they get to ryan zimmerman. that's jason isringhausen. >> rob: tampa bay. >> bob: nationals down to their last strike. i'm not sure how nick got his bat out to reach that thing. tampa bay trying to get back over .500 tonight. after last night's game, they have 100 games left and they are trying to go 32-32. >> rob: the old pitch track. >>

the danes, the dutch, and a recent years have dramatically cut their deficits through belt- tightening, a combination of cutting spending and raising taxes, and there are probably lessons to be learned here about how we began to unwind this. that doesn't mean it is time to unwind tomorrow. that is not what the folks at the imf meeting, but g8 meeting in italy were suggesting. but they did suggest it is time to begin to talk about it, which i think is a sign that politically this spending -- the growing deficits is not sustainable for much longer politically. host: what role does the u.k. have and all of this quotient -- had in all of this? house of are they from the rest of europe in terms of spending? guest: they actually severed a great deal in part, some people think, because they have become so dependent on financial services at the major industry. there is very little manufacturing left in the british economy. and financial-services was deeply dependent on the housing prices and sales, which have fallen dramatically in great britain. it was deeply dependent on transfer is in the f

one of the major reasons for that is the so-called crack powder disparity when it comes to could he dane -- cocaine. i use this simply as an illustration that under our current laws someone who is guilty of selling this amount of cocaine is subject to the same incarceration as someone who sells this amount of crack cocaine. this disparity sadly i voted for. many of us did 20 years ago. we didn't know how terrible crack would be but we were told it would completely change narcotics in america. it was so cheap, so plentiful and so devastating that we had to do something extraordinary and the net result was this 100 to one disparity in terms of sentencing. there are men and women presently in incarcerated in the united states for 10 and 20 years because of this 100 to one disparity between two forms of cocaine. we held a hearing in the subcommittee, crime subcommittee of judiciary, and we had expert testimony not just from those who said there is no no basis, scientific basis for this disparity, but also from law enforcement officials, including the gentleman who came to us from miami, flor