Yuval writes:

Olympia Snowe, explaining her vote in favor of the Baucus bill:
Is this bill all that I want? Far from it. Is it all that it can be? Far from it. But when history calls, history calls.
Downright Hegelian, not to mention characteristically well-reasoned. Next time history calls, take a message.

This just begs for someone to do a Hegelian Youtube spoof of “When a Stranger Calls.”

Here’s the set-up.

A senator is working late in her private office, reading staff memos and CRS reports.
The phone rings, startling the lawmaker.
“Hello?”
“Have you checked the interns?” a gravelly voice asks. The line goes dead.
The Senator finds the interns. They’re fine.
The Senator goes back to work. The phone rings again.
“Who is this?”
“It’s History, Senator.”
“What do you want?”
“You know what I want.”
Thunder booms and the wind blows open the windows.
The Senator, panicked, slams down the phone and runs around her office for no apparent reason.
The phone rings again. “Stop calling me!” she screams into the receiver.
“Senator,” a rushed voices shouts, “It’s the capital police. We’ve traced the calls. They’re coming from inside the House. It might be Barney Frank. You have to get out of there!”

Or something like that.

Update: Oh cool. Here’s the original trailer:

That movie scared the bejezus out of me when I was a kid.