Popular wisdom has the nation's economic crisis largely the result of bin Laden's 9/11 terrorist attacks, but a far more deadly scrouge on the nation was George W. Bush's $300 tax rebate to taxpayers.

Never before in the nation's history had anything like it occurred. Americans had become accustomed to paying money to the government and never seeing it again. Tax cuts, much less rebates, were seldom seen in Washington and never in an off-election year.

The lone voice of Senator Tom Daschle (D.) was the first hint that something had gone terribly wrong in Washington during the early months of Bush's first term, and embarrassed Republicans attempted to hush him with accusations of partisanship motive to win back the Congress and run for President, but Dashelle had merely stated what would soon become the obvious: People aren't evil, tax cuts are!

The message spread like a raging fire. "Stop the tax cuts" became the national mantra, and good hearted Americans began mailing back their $300 tax rebates to the government in droves.

With the federal mail bulging with returned rebates, the public began buying again and the battered economy quickly returned to good health.

A emotional Daschle thanked the public for saving the nation and said never again would the Congress pass an evil tax cut, and with a groundswell of popular support declared his candidacy for the presidency.

Needless to say, George W. Bush won in a landslide and the nation lived happily ever after.