Wanted: Pentagon Pork Buster

Winslow T. Wheeler details the job requirements:

Any serious proposal to reform congressional pork barreling would include the following:
-- A description of the item and the need for it, if any, not by anyone in Congress, but by an objective entity, such as the Government Accountability Office.
-- An estimate of the past, present, and future cost of the idea, again not from the advocates but from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
-- Most importantly, every earmark Congress endorses should be awarded federal money only after a nation-wide competition to find the best contractor for it. If the idea is any good, why award it to an enterprise pre-selected by a politician rather than by the open market?
-- Few, if any, in Congress will like these ideas; they need a stalwart advocate: specifically, a member that would use the parliamentary devices at his or her disposal to frustrate business as usual unless real reforms are adopted.

John McCain need not apply!