Initial thoughts on my project

I've been having a hard time deciding what to do, and the comments left for about my first post, all encouraging incorporating the pilot in some way haven't helped to clarify things, but I appreciate the support of my classmates.

At the moment the best idea I've come up with is further developing a paper that I began writing over last summer. It's a straight forward research paper, with some room for speculation because of certain holes in available scholarly opinion, on the long-term ramifications of the Clinton impeachment scandal.

There are a lot of things to examine and expound upon. Currently I have about eight and half pages of rough draft that focuses mainly on the elements of constitutional law that were involved in the decisions of the 105th Congress. I only have a paragraph or two on the influence that the scandal had on the political culture of the US, but that's the area that I can do most of my work in.

First of all, there is the argument that the "moral call" position was flopped from democrats to republicans with the scandal. This has a lot of ramifications in terms of the religious fundamentalism that makes up a definitive portion of Bush II's platform/administration.

Also there are questions of how the scandal affected the election of 2000, and even 2004.

More importantly the apparent lack of attention the government paid to polls during the impeachment scandal has held true through the Iraq conflict as increasingly negative public opinion seems to have little or no effect on the actions of the government.

Additionally the creation of the moveon organization, which revolves around email, is one of the first major examples of the digital/internet age making its way into politics. This is substantial for discussion because the organization was formed around the need for moving the Democratic Party away or on from the scandal and its ensuing issues with the electorate.

There's a lot to talk about, and I could easily make this topic into a substantial research assignment, but as I said I am really intrigued by using the pilot in some way. Perhaps writing the paper, and then publishing it in the pilot as a serial? But that would marginalize the pilot itself...I dunno.