The Washington Times has an astonishing article today detailing the lengths that unions are willing to go to get Arlen Specter's vote for card check, including re-registering their members as Republicans en masse to get Specter through a primary. One amazing snippet:

Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William M. George said he pledged Mr. Specter "all kinds of help from the union" in a series of meetings to woo the Republican senator's support for the bill, which would ease rules favoring secret-ballot elections to unionize workplaces.

"We are pushing to give him help in the primary, including changing Democrats to Republicans for the primary," Mr. George told The Times. "It's hard to do because of other races in the state ... but we'll do it for 'card check.' "

Read the whole thing.