--- title: John Boehner Disagrees With Sarah Palin on Barack Obama Impeachment description: House Speaker splits with Palin on Obama impeachment canonical: https://time.com/2970043/boehner-impeachment-palin-obama/ author: Alex Rogers article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-09T18:54:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:03:08.419Z article:section: Politics og:title: John Boehner Disagrees With Sarah Palin on Barack Obama Impeachment og:description: House Speaker splits with Palin on Obama impeachment og:url: https://time.com/2970043/boehner-impeachment-palin-obama/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: John Boehner Disagrees With Sarah Palin on Barack Obama Impeachment twitter:description: House Speaker splits with Palin on Obama impeachment twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Boehner Parts with Palin on Obama Impeachment by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Jul 9, 2014 6:54 PM UTC by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Jul 9, 2014 6:54 PM UTC House Speaker John Boehner wants to sue President Barack Obama, but he doesn’t want to impeach him. “I disagree,” Boehner said Wednesday when asked to respond to an [op-ed](http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/08/Exclusive-Sarah-Palin-Time-to-Impeach-President-Obama/) by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin calling on the House to impeach the President. Boehner said last month that the lawsuit House Republicans are planning against Obama was not about impeachment but about “faithfully executing the laws of our country.” Palin tagged her impeachment call to the President’s immigration policy, writing that the border crisis is “the last straw that makes the battered wife say, ‘no mas.’” On Fox News Tuesday, Palin, the 2008 Republican Vice Presidential nominee, added that House Republicans’ lawsuit would not be a sufficient message to the president. “You don’t bring a lawsuit to a gunfight,” Palin said. “There’s no place for lawyers on the front lines.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2970043/boehner-impeachment-palin-obama/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2970043/boehner-impeachment-palin-obama/"},"headline":"Boehner Parts with Palin on Obama Impeachment","datePublished":"2014-07-09T18:54:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:03:08.419Z","description":"House Speaker splits with Palin on Obama impeachment","url":"https://time.com/2970043/boehner-impeachment-palin-obama/","keywords":["Congress","John Boehner","President Obama","Sarah Palin","Impeachment"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Rogers","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2970043/boehner-impeachment-palin-obama/","name":"Boehner Parts with Palin on Obama Impeachment"}}]}] ```