"It's mind-boggling: Marsha Martin, the executive director of AIDS Action [3] - the AIDS community's largest, most visible, and wealthiest Washington lobby, with a multi-million dollar budget - has jumped into bed with the Bush-Rove Republicans with both feet," political journalist Doug Ireland writes on his blog Direland [4]. "In a perfectly scandalous act of betrayal of the AIDS community, Martin is one of a small committee sponsoring a pricey celebration of Bush's November victory, and that of the Republicans in Congress. And guess who gets the money from this orgy of felicitations to the GOP? A front group for Big Pharma that crusades against giving cheap, generic AIDS-fighting meds to the world's poorest victims of the AIDS pandemic." The event is a benefit for the Aids Responsibility Project [5], which counts as "partners" the giant trade association Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America [6] (PhRMA), Daimler Chrysler, drug maker Pfizer [7], U.S. Agency for International Development [8] and the free-market website Tech Central Station [9].