John Adams, Abigail Adams, and our current congressional malaise

The Founders faced no shortage of existential challenges. But it's probably good they're not around to see what happened on Capitol Hill this week

John and Abigail Adams rest together, forever, in a pair of elegantly carved granite tombs in a family crypt in the bowels of the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Mass.

A few feet away, John Quincy Adams, and his wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, rest beside them.

Standing that humbling silence a week or so back, I ran one hand over each of their restin…