Republicans in Olympia are tired of the Spend-o-crat majority rendering their very existence moot, and they've decided to do something about it—make funny noises.

Representative Dan Roach, who is proving that douchebaggery is hereditary, was complaining that Democrats were railroading a bill through the House to benefit trial lawyers when he went a little off the rails himself--launching an attack on House majority leader Lynn Kessler's trial lawyer husband Keith.

The Times' David Postman takes it from here:

House Speaker Pro Tem John Lovick gaveled Roach down and warned him to follow House rules that do not allow impugning fellow members. Roach continued: "Look out guys, the train is coming through. The Keith Kessler train is coming through and you better get out of the way."

Then Roach made a blowing-the-whistle motion with his arm, pumping it up and down, and made the sound effects, too: "Whoo, whoo!"

(Video at the 1:20:08 mark)

At this point Lynn Kessler angrily approached Roach and asked a question that really needs to be answered, "What in the world is wrong with you?"

Roach later apologized to Kessler, and later told Postman that he did what he had to do, "We have no voice. I have no way to communicate what is going on. If I didn't do what I did today you wouldn't be calling me right now. I want to be heard and if that's what it takes, to do theatrics on the floor, then that's what's going to happen."

Roach's claim does have precedent. In 1895 during a vigorous debate over regulatory veterinary medicine Representative Giles Hogan continually made fart noises on his arm, and who could forget in 1953 when Representative Edward A. Carson brought a slide whistle on to the floor.

Dan Roach, realizing that the voiceless need not use words at all.