bachmannDemocrats blasted Rep. Michele Bachmann’s “House Call” rally against health care reform at the nation’s Capitol on Thursday. Dr. Maureen Reed’s campaign attacked Bachmann for sticking up for the health insurance lobby while the Democratic National Committee tried to paint Bachmann as the voice of the Republican Party.

“If the Republican party wants to make Michele Bachmann the voice of the party, that’s more than fine with us. We’ll help circulate the petition,” the DNC said in a press release on Thursday that continued:

But it is surprising that after Congressman-elect Owens won a special election by supporting the President’s agenda in a New York district that hasn’t elected a Democrat since Benjamin Harrison was President, that the Republican party would continue to allow itself to be led around by nose by the likes of Bachmann, Beck, Limbaugh, Palin and the rest of the extreme tea party crowd. It’s their extreme right-wing, rigid ideological agenda that has Americans leaving the Republican Party in droves — and so, if displays like today are what they think is a smart political strategy, all we can say is: go for it.

Jason Isaacson, manager of Reed’s campaign to unseat Bachmann, tied Bachmann’s rally to the health insurance lobby:

Bachmann claims her rally is to remind Congress of the town hall meetings over the summer, but those meetings were orchestrated by insurance companies opposed to meaningful reform from the start. One insurance company in particular was caught urging employees to attend tea parties and has already spent $3.5 million this year lobbying Congress.

Michele Bachmann shouldn’t be defending her political contributors who have reaped billion dollar profits last quarter — she should be focused on helping the hard working families and small businesses of Minnesota’s Sixth District that need health care reform now.

Reed’s campaign noted that Bachmann has accepted $206,900 in campaign contributions from the health care industry.