Dan Pfeiffer, Obama’s senior adviser, said that House Speaker John Boehner’s move to sue President Obama has ‘opened the door to Republicans possibly considering impeachment.’

It seems the Democrats are now trying to use the Republican demand for impeachment in their own favor.

After a reporter brought up Pfeiffer’s comment, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, “There are some prominent members of the Republican Party who have articulated their support for articles of impeachment. What we’re focused on is the business of the American people.”

A CNN/ORC poll that came out Friday showed that 35 percent of Americans support the impeachment of President Obama, while 57 percent of Republicans do.

Pfeiffer even put a timeline on possible impeachment: after Obama takes executive action on immigration, which the aide said would come after the summer.

“I think that the President acting on immigration reform will certainly up the likelihood that they would contemplate impeachment at some point,” he said.

Pfeiffer’s comments also created fodder for Democratic fundraising e-mails on impeachment.

“This is an all-hands-on-deck moment,” said an e-mail from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “A top White House official just said that ‘Speaker Boehner … has opened the door to impeachment ….’ ”

House Judiciary Committee chairman Robert Goodlatte (R) of Virginia said July 13 on ABC News’s This Week, “We are not working on or drawing up articles of impeachment. The Constitution is very clear as to what constitutes grounds for impeachment of the president of the United States. He has not committed the kind of criminal acts that call for that.”

However, the House Rules Committee approved a resolution backing the suit over Obama’s delay of the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Republicans say the president overstepped his constitutional authority. The full House is expected to take up the measure before its August recess.