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The Republican Party operates on the principle that paying more for less is a dandy idea.  They, of course, are on the payee side of this equation.

As Juanita has mentioned before, she detests deregulation so badly that she used a Momma-unapproved word to describe it.  Now she finds out that not only did she have to sit in the dark and freeze, but they overcharged her for it just out of meanness.

She’s so mad that if she didn’t sweat, she’d catch on fire.

“Holy mother of pearl on a dog butt,” she stomps, “they’ve screwed us again.”

Texans have paid $11.5 billion more for residential electricity than the national average under deregulation in “a massive drain” on the economy, two consumer groups claim in a report that raises troubling questions about how the state’s power supply is managed.

The analysis, one of the most detailed studies of Texas utility rates since deregulation began in 2002, concluded that consumers are overcharged by a system that is controlled by electric companies and fails in its primary goal — to hold down rates by encouraging competition.

“And you wanna know the worst part?” she continues. “They use all that money they steal from us to fund more Republican candidates to screw us some more.  So, every time you turn on a blow dryer or a curling iron, you’re funding Leo Berman’s campaign.”