You're right -- the part quoted is not whiny in tone, but it is whiny when taken into the larger context of the article. I find the blame game that has come with the financial collapse to largely be "whiny". I hear the following complaints repeatedly:

* The greedy banks were giving out loans to people they knew couldn't afford them.

* The greedy people were taking loans on homes they couldn't afford.

* (Now) Paulson was greedy to profit on the system collapsing.

Of course everybody was acting greedy! That is the idea behind capitalism. Complaining about greed in a system based on greed is unproductive and whiny.