Bachmann to Hannity: No bipartisan dog and pony show on health care

Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Monday to talk about why Republicans should skip President Obama’s bipartisan health care reform summit. Bachmann recently announced that Hannity would be appearing with Sarah Palin at her April campaign event.

Hannity asked Bachmann whether Republicans should accept Obama’s invitation for the bipartisan summit (Minnesota Rep. John Kline is one of the Republicans invited to the health care discussion).

“If his intent is to get a photo op so he can check the box and claim he has bipartisanship and transparency, then that seems pretty disingenuous,” she said. “We don’t want just a political dog and pony show. We want real negotiations, and real discussion. We would love to present our great ideas.”

Then, doing a little political forecasting, Bachmann told Hannity that Republicans need to unify with Tea Partiers.

“Splitting the vote won’t get us to victory. We have to have unity so we need to unify around constitutional principles. And we’ll prevail like gangbusters.”