On grounds that were totally and completely fabricated, Obama lawyers would show up on the doorstep of some cash rich Corporation and they would say something like:
“you can fight our silly allegations and end up spending years and a billion dollars or you can cut a check today for 50 million to the Sierra Club and we’ll just go away”
It meant ZERO consultation or debate with any taxpayers and elected officials.
no one at all had to be consulted, it was sort of like the private little war they cooked up in Libya.
they did it again and again and again, a lot like operation choke point in which they strong-armed Banks into ceasing business with Industries they simply didn’t like on a whim.
to turn the tables, it would be like a women showing up at Planned Parenthood and trying to pay for an abortion but discovering she had to pay using hundred dollar bills like a drug dealer.
I wonder if Lerner coughed this up - a name - in order to walk. This is far more actionable than 501C abuse.