This just in: The rich get richer. President Barack “Hope ’n’ Change” Obama ticked off a lot of people Monday by helping the affluent and entitled stay that way with his GOP-appeasing tax cut plan, and thus, he had some ’splainin’ to do. Let’s see what he had to say for himself, shall we? –KA

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