US House speaker says he disagrees with calls to impeach Obama

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Boehner was asked about former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's assertion that House Republicans should impeach Obama over the influx of child migrants crossing the US border without documents. Boehner responded by simply saying, "I disagree."
 
Boehner repeated those words in response to a follow-up question about some members of the House privately demanding Obama's impeachment.
 
On Tuesday, Sarah Palin called for Obama’s impeachment over his handling of the growing immigration crisis.
 
"The many impeachable offenses of Barack Obama can no longer be ignored," Palin said in an op-ed published in Breitbart News. "If after all this he's not impeachable, then no one is."
 
The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee wrote that Obama's "unsecured border crisis is the last straw" and asked lawmakers to evict him from the White House.
 
"It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment," she said.
 
Palin accused Obama of "deliberately" opening the borders to thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America who have entered the United States this year without documents, saying the influx of migrants was transforming the country.
 
Several Republican members of the House have also called for Obama's impeachment, including Reps. Lou Barletta (Pa.), Kerry Bentivolio (Mich.), Paul Broun (Ga.), Michael Burgess (Texas), Blake Farenthold (Texas), Michele Bachmann (Minn.) and Louie Gohmert (Texas).
 
But many other Republicans are opposed to the calls, wary that they could provide Democrats an important issue that might help the party retain its majority in the Senate during an election year.
 
In 1998, the impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton backfired on the Republican Party, when Democrats clinched seats in the House despite the fact that the odds were stacked against them.