Phill "Pantysniffer" Kline uses taxpayer-funded website to continue election feud

At the Johnson County District Attorney's Office Home Page, Phill Kline (the extra "l" is for loser) pimps a WingNutDaily column by local conspiracy theorist Jack Cashill (HT: KSDP Buffalo Blog). Kline's heading for the article is "WorldNetDaily coverage of Morrison / Tiller controversy," an accurate enough description which fails to establish why it belongs on a county-funded webpage. Tiller is an OB/GYN in Wichita who runs a family planning clinic, Morrison (then the Johnson County DA) beat Kline in last year's state Attorney General election.

Neither Morrison nor Tiller currently has anything to do with the JoCo DA's office, or any legal matters pending there. As Attorney General, Kline hounded Tiller constantly, but never managed to get any charges to stick. Tiller's clinic and a Planned Parenthood clinic both fought with Kline over access to medical records, a fishing expedition which ultimately backfired on Kline, helping to cost him the election. As a last act, he filed charges against Tiller for alleged improprieties regarding late-term abortions he performed. Those charges were dismissed, and Morrison recently filed a separate set of charges recently, charges which Tiller argues are overstated (the details revolve around alleged financial links between Tiller and a second doctor who certified the necessity of the late-term abortions).

In the commentary linked and quoted by Kline's official county web page, Jack Cashill violates Godwin's law:

In watching all of this take place, I have to ask myself whether we judged too harshly those "Good Germans," who turned a blind eye to Nazi inhumanities. In Kansas, we don't even have a Gestapo to explain our passivity.

"Passivity," mind you, towards two doctors agreeing that a medical procedure is necessary to protect a woman's life. To say that this analogy to Nazi Germany is strained gives it far too much credit. This treatment of the Holocaust as a banal analogy to haggling over legal technicalities crosses the line from rhetorical excess into Holocaust denial, and it would be disappointing to see Kline parroting that line in his private life. That he would use county resources to continue a fight he lost with the November elections places this beyond the realm of mere disappointment. This is an abuse of his office and the taxpayers' trust.

Of course, Kline may no longer care. He already has primary and general election opponents lining up against him, and given that Johnson County went against him in the AG race last time, and his installation as DA was as undemocratic a process as any imaginable, I think it's safe to say he'll be looking for a new job soon. Perhaps he'll run for Congress again, this time against Congresswoman Boyda?

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Jackass,

I'd leave a comment but apparently I'm the only one to stumble across this barren wasteland in some time.

Perhaps if you bothered to be truthful in your blog posts, people would read them more. But when you don't even bother to begin to approach facts, what is the point?

Have a nice night typing intellectually masturbatory nonsense for no one in particular.

Sincerely,

Mom

By El Conservito (not verified) on 11 Jul 2007 #permalink

Please do your homework before you speak it's embarrassing. In one example of Tiller "protecting a woman's life", a young lady wanted a late-term abortion so she could go to a rock concert, so Tiller's dirty doctors(I'm sure not motivated by money at all)determined that she would have long term depression if she missed the concert, Tiller then killed the baby/fetus. This seems to be something worth the county looking into if no one else will don't you think? Turn a blind eye if you want, but do your homework before you defend a man who built his wealth taking money from young girls by telling them that their "depression" will last a life time if they don't kill a life that she helped create and..oh yeah hand over $8000 for the procedure please. Trust me the aftermath of that choice is way more depressing than missing a concert...although your mom might have preferred the concert.

Hooo-eee, Josh, you flushed some nutters outta the woodwork! Nice work, by the way, the hornets purely don't like it when yer beatin' down their nest.

Damn, them rednecks are sure willin' to tell their wimmenfolk when/whether to have littluns.

PS El Conservito, yer sheep want ya to leave 'em alone for awhile, mmkay?

lol. silly repubs.

By freestate townie (not verified) on 12 Jul 2007 #permalink

Nice going Josh. Hope you logged those IP addresses. =)

Apparently Kline has paid (or probably volunteer) stooges that google his name and then harrass anyone posting something that actually has the gall to be honest.

Everyone knows Kline is crooked. Some of us actually care. Nutters like those above are the reason I always specificaly metnion that I am not FROM Kansas. I only live here.

Cheers.

Good going, Josh. I'm not surprised to see that PhilLoser (stealing that idea, the second 'l' is for 'Loser') is still sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. The world will be turning as it should as soon as the decision a woman makes with her doctor is none of anybody else's frikkin' business.

And it's so nice to know that the Compassionate Conservative (tm) (Jacky?) knows so much better than those women and their doctors. I mean, we're such lost sheep, we'd never be able to discern a doctor's motives on our own.

Sounds like Jacky should do some homework of his/her own. Like reading up on what conditions require abortions to be performed*, or how it's not really up to legislative and judicial bodies to determine safe medical practices.

(Oh, and if you got another comment before this one? Kill it. It's going to a blog post, and I hit the Enter key by accident.)

*Tried to find the link again, but didn't. Sorry.

One quick note and I will spend my time elsewhere: Kansas law for LATE-term abortions states that the woman needs to be clinically depressed or the woman's life needs to be in danger before a late-term abortion is performed. A concert doesn't fall under this catagory.

It really has nothing to do with the compassion I have or don't have for the pregnant teens it's just the law and Tiller is doing illegal abortions.

Oops. Guess they don't like when you talk about the LAW.

Seems no one has an answer for that one. As I suspected.

By El Conservito (not verified) on 12 Jul 2007 #permalink

kline would have to move again after having moved back to JoCo from Topeka - to the 2nd District and re-register after having just changed his registration after he lost... I'm remembering an anti Boyda commercial where her head was bouncing all over the Kansas map. And after Kline's rich history of running in so many races from the 3rd District area - I just don't think its likely

Where oh where do these nutters get their so-called "facts" and "homework"? Late-term abortion to go to a rock concert!!?? LOL! It's enough to spit out my coffee, I'm laughing so hard! but then these folks think the world is less than 6,000 years old, too. Prolly got the same abortion facts from the same unintelligent design website.

I'm not sure how Jacky would know these sorts of details without reading private medical records, in which case it would be a violation of HIPAA and other privacy laws. Or Jacky (or Jacky's source) could just be making things up.

Do some of you people understand what a late term abortion is? It is killing a living human right before it is born by a method which is excrutiatingly painful. Do you not believe it happens? Do you not believe that Tiller is the premier late term abortion provider not only for Kansas residents but for people from all over the world? I challenge you to face facts. It's unspeakable cruelty. If you had to watch it, could you? And, is depression a good enough reason to allow it? I'm amazed at the attitude of some of you.

By travelingal (not verified) on 14 Jul 2007 #permalink

I wish people wouldn't trivialize depression. Anyone who's had a friend kill himself or herself would know better.

"Fetal pain" is at best debatable, and a lot of available evidence suggests that pain in the sense you and I experience it is not something which exists until some months or even years after birth. I really don't think you want to bring that standard to bear here, since it could well yield results we all would balk at.

Whether we regard a 7 month-old fetus as "a living human being" (with all the legal and moral status that applies) is one of the points of contention, and it solves nothing to assume your conclusion.

If indeed a fetus is a person, that still wouldn't take away a woman's right to self-defense. If anti-abortionists had their way, it would be legally less complicated to shoot someone in a bar fight than for a pregnant woman to defend her health and safety against the putative person inside her.

travelingal-- It is medically called a intact dilation and evacuation (intact D&E). And did you know only 1.4% of all abortions result in this procedure? That's it. Did you also know that these fetuses are deformed beyond medical intervention -- either no brain, no brain stem, fluid on the brain, organs growing outside the body? That if carried to any kind of viability, they would die an immediate excrutiating death ex utero? That would cause a severe depression in any mother. I know you don't want to hear this. But it is the truth.

'woman got an abortion so she could go to a rock concert' is an urban legend that I've been hearing in various forms since about 1989 or so.

FTR, the "rock concert" fabrication was compliments of the Theo-con McHugh who spends a lot of time pushing Bush's stem cell agenda, that is, when he isn't defending priests accused of pedophilia. Check it out if you have the guts.