Failure Upon Failure

Failure Upon Failure | The Weekly Standard:
"If Reagan sought to minimize the role of government in the lives of Americans, Obama set out to do the opposite. 
“We’ve had a federal government that I think has gotten worn down and ineffective over the course of the Bush administration, partly because philosophically this administration did not believe in government as an agent of change,” he complained.
“I want to make government cool again,” he said.
Obama believed in government, and he was confident that his election would signal that the American people were ready to believe again, too.
As we approach the sixth anniversary of his election, the Obama presidency is in tatters. 
Obama’s policies, foreign and domestic, are widely seen as failed or failing. 
His approval rating is near its lowest point. 
Obama’s base of support is loyal and fierce and shrinking. Much of the country sees him as incompetent or untrustworthy, and government, far from being “cool,” is a joke on good days and a threat on bad ones.

....The top concern of Americans today, more than six years after Barack Obama vowed to “make government cool again,” is that they don’t trust their government. 
When Obama took office, 43 percent of Americans told Gallup that they were satisfied with the way the country was being governed, while 56 percent said they were dissatisfied. 
Today, just 27 percent say they’re satisfied and 72 percent say they’re dissatisfied.
A CNN poll taken in July found that trust in government is at an all-time low, with just 13 percent saying they trust government all or most of the time. 
Keating Holland, the director of polling at CNN, framed the results this way: 
“The number who trust government all or most of the time has sunk so low that it is hard to remember that there was ever a time when Americans routinely trusted government.”