Captain Ed is trying to help Speaker Nancy “Big Tuna” Pelosi eliminate pork from the budget. It’s an idea so simple that I’m surprised someone didn’t come up with it before – just call it something else!

Nancy Pelosi, who campaigned on a platform of ending lobbyist influence and the “culture of corruption” in Congress, has unveiled a new strategy to do both. She wants people to call pork-barrel line items something other than “earmarks” so that Congress can get back to stuffing legislation full of pet projects and keep their leverage with the lobbyists:

To help stimulate your creativity Ed is having a contest.

But let’s get in the spirit of this thing. Let’s get some suggestions for new names. We’ll collect them in the comments today, and tomorrow we’ll hold a run-off poll to select the new nomenclature for pork-barrel spending. If that’s how Nancy Pelosi intends to clean up Washington, we can provide some needed assistance.

UPDATE: Please make sure you leave your entry in the comments section. The winning entry from the run-off will get a free copy of The Reagan Diaries, as an antidote to the inanity that Pelosi’s leadership has provided.

Coming soon to bRight & Early — Bacon Man, pointing out all the pork that Congress will allow us to see.