Part XI of 'Whine Some More!"

It's been almost two weeks since the GOP's most frequently-played game show, 'Whine Some More!' has been around so lets see what they've been up to lately.

37. "That black sonofabitch isn't smart enough to run the economy! We've lost 400,000 jobs in Ohio while he's been in office!"

Most of those job losses were in 2007. President Obama took office in January 2008. Now, altogether. WHO was President of the United States in 2007?

38. Oil companies like BP wouldn't be drilling wells in deep water if the environmentalists hadn't pushed them out of the shallow water!

This is Governor Quitter's claim. Actually, Oil companies are in deep water because that's where they've found the biggest oil fields.

39. Obama's escrow account amounts to a huge grab of private assets that the government will control!

LOL. It's an escrow account run by a third party. What's wrong with that anyway? They ruined the Gulf, they should pay to clean up their mess.

40 That guy Obama proposed as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is more interested in 'social justice' than individual patients!"

Betsy McCaughey screeched this in an op-ed in the New York Post because David Berwick, the nominee, wants to bring down health care costs. What McCaughey DOESN'T tell you is that Berwick wants to bring down the health care costs and care for patients at the same time.

41. Obama's plan to put a moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling for oil until we can establish good contingency plans in case of disaster are absurd and unnecessary!

Oh really? That'd be news to the shrimpers off the coast of Louisiana, who are watching their businesses be destroyed by BP's gushing oil well leak that's been going for almost two months now and BP's tried SIX times to plug the hole. It's just a guess but I'll bet they think that moratorium is not an absurd idea at all.

As for unnecessary, ALL the companies drilling in the gulf use the same tiny company for a relief plan. Three of those plans list the same phone number for a marine science expert who's been dead for five years. Four of the plans say protecting walruses in the Gulf of Mexico in the event of an oil leak is very important. Walruses haven't existed in the Gulf for three million years. CEO's from oil companies such as Exxon/Mobile and Conoco/Phillips say oil contingency plans are "an embarrassment."

With thanks to Media Matters

S. Olson