November 10, 2006 9:59AM 

# Jeff Flake, Take (Another) Bow! 

By [Sallie James](https://www.cato.org/people/sallie-james) 

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Further to Tom’s [post](https://www.cato.org/2006/11/06/jeff-flake-take-a-bow/) on Monday, our friend Jeff Flake (R–AZ) has written an excellent [op-ed](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116312591001219432.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries) in today’s *Wall Street Journal* (subscription required) on the need for Republicans to apologize for betraying their small-government principles. Mr. Flake points to the farm bill, up for renewal next year, as the best opportunity to ” hew back to our \[i.e., Republicans’\] first principles.”

Yes, please. And may I propose the dairy policy, one of the most egregious examples of Soviet-style intervention, as one of the first to be reformed? Here’s a [study](http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/briefs/tbp-024es.html) I released yesterday on that very topic.

Bravo, Mr. Flake. I wish you the best of luck.

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