Confidence in the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court all plummets

Gallup finds that Americans' confidence in all three branches of the US government has fallen, reaching record lows for the Supreme Court and Congress, and a six-year low for the presidency. 
 
 Politically speaking, and to mangle Shakespeare, now is the summer of our discontent.
 
 At least according to Gallup, which reported recently that Americans' confidence in all three branches of the US government has fallen, reaching record lows for the Supreme Court (30 percent) and Congress (7 percent), and a six-year low for the presidency (29 percent). The presidency had the largest drop of the three branches this year, down seven percentage points from its previous rating of 36 percent.

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