Enron collapse…Northern Arc issue…Israel sends in tanks, Palestinians send suicide bombers…Kenneth Lay…Tri-State Crematory… Arthur Blank buys Falcons…Senator Billy Ray gets judgeship…Sunny Warren resigns as Gwinnett Chair…Linda Hamrick, Clint Austin & Bobby Reese lose against David Shafer…Former Rockdale County Chairman Randy Poynter passes away…

Bob Barr challenges John Linder…Secretary of State Cathy Cox protects Cynthia & Billy McKinney… "Hyperbole has its place in politics. Dishonesty doesn't." (if you know who said this and in what context, you deserve a 1-year subscription to the Vine)…WorldCom bites the dust…Arthur Andersen implodes…Global Crossing implodes…Mortgage brokers get accused of being Predators…Grits gets named Official Food of Georgia…Cobb County GOP FUBAR-Parts 1-87 (i.e., Marilyn Gilhuly, Anthony-Scott Hobbs and all of the other shady characters involved in the drama about everyday life inside the county Republican Party)…

Bob Barr hires Linda Hamrick/Tim Phillips…Bob Barr is “gooder”…Bob Barr misfires…Bob & the Barr-Nuts make it to Number 1 in foolish endeavors to lose against Bo Harmon and John Linder 64% to 36%… Sonny Perdue takes the gubernatorial primary in one take…Barbara Dooley hires Linda Hamrick and loses against Congressman-Elect Max Burns… GoodbyeCythnia.com…Hello Congresswoman Denise Majette…Maria Strollo decides to trade whatever integrity she may have possessed before moving to Gwinnett to gain the Georgia Right To Life pro-life endorsement (she was quite the moderate to liberal Republican before 2001) and loses in the first round of the State Senate 45 race to Renee Unterman...

Joyce Stevens basically claims she’s ordained by G-d and loses against Renee Unterman in a runoff by 28%…Price Harding is recruited by ralph reed and loses against Dan Moody by a 12% margin in the runoff…Vernadette Broyles hires Linda Hamrick and loses by a 20% margin in the runoff… Cecil Staton hires Linda Hamrick/ralph reed against Phil Gingrey and loses in a runoff by a 28% margin… GoodbyeBilly(McKinney).com…Hello, State Representative John Noel…Matt Dollar beats Pat Wilder by 14% in the runoff for HD #31…

Cobb County School Board decides its okay to teach Creationism Theory as an alternative to Evolution Theory as to how our planet and organic life began (wonder what the Cobb School Board thinks now about the Raelian theory that extra-terrestrials landed on earth a long, long time ago and genetically-cloned the human race…can we have that theory introduced into the classroom as well, Mr. and Mrs. School Board Member?)…Barnes’ appointed State School Board contemplates cutting foreign-language requirements from K-12 curriculum… Bill Nigut boo-hoos to his WSB-TV bosses because Linda Schrenko told him to f--- himself…Roy Barnes says children die every day…

WSB TV FUBAR-Parts 1&2 as they attempt to block Perdue’s onslaught of their “hero,” King Roy…State Representative Max Davis passes away…Sonny Perdue beats King Roy…Saxby Chambliss beats Max Cleland…Phil Gingrey beats Roger Kahn…Max Burns beats Charles Walker, Jr….Randy Hall defeats Charles Walker, Sr.…Kathy Cox wins State School Superintendent position…Bill Heath defeats Tom Murphy…First time DeKalb County state house candidate Jill Chambers beats a Democrat in a Democratically-drawn district…The GOP wins control of the U.S. Senate and increases it’s lead in the U.S. House…

Dem State Senators Dan Lee, Rooney Bowen and Don Cheeks switch to the Georgia GOP within days of the GOP takeover of the governorship, giving the GOP control of 2/3 of Georgia government…Lt. Guv. Mark Taylor starts crying a river…Governor-Elect Sonny Perdue stiff-arms columnist Bill Shipp and the AJC by shutting-off all communication between his Transition Team and the news media…The Political Vine ambitiously invests time and money into a new Website, hoping we can keep churning out good stuff…Al Gore decides not to run in 2004…Bush gets tougher with Saddam…A human baby is claimed to have been cloned outside the United States…North Korea restarts a nuclear power plant…Trent Lott opens his mouth one too many times and is urged to resign as Senate Majority Leader…Senator Bill Frist becomes Majority-Leader Designate…

Our economy still sucks…stock market still not back in working order…but, Republicans did quite well in Georgia and across the nation on November 5, and personally, we are alive, well, and healthy, and grateful to all of what 2002 brought us, and we look forward to whatever 2003 will bring us…but, we are really hoping for much better economic, social, and peaceful times for everyone.