The sweeping wins by Democrats in the mid-term elections saw a lot of seemingly entrenched Republicans losing their elections. We all know the well-known losers like Susan Collins of Maine, Roger Marshall of Kansas, and governors like Greg Abbott of Texas. But there were other high-profile well-deserved losers like Ken Paxton, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Mike Rogers.

But I would like a moment to toast to some of the lesser known but more obnoxious members whom (hopefully) we will never hear from again.

Toast #1: Lauren Boebert, the congresswoman from Colorado, made it a point to gleefully rub into our faces her enthusiasm for guns during the heyday of Republican dominance. She owned a restaurant called Shooter’s Grill where employees were encouraged to wear guns openly. She was an extreme MAGA cult member and first won in 2020 in the 3rd district but won re-election very narrowly by just 546 votes in 2022. Fearing a loss in 2024, she decided to shift to the 4th district, considered to be the safest Republican district in the state, angering the potential Republican candidates in that district who called her a carpetbagger. She won that race easily but lost that extremely conservative seat in the 2026 election. It did not help that in 2023 she was caught on film vaping, singing, and groping and being groped by her partner during a performance of Beetlejuice, earning her the epithet of ‘Gropert’. After her defeat, she heavily played the Christian card saying “Jesus is Lord” and that her original decision to run was because of an answer she received to her fervent prayer ““Here I am, Lord! Send me!” No word on where Jesus is sending her next.

Bye, Felicia!

Toast #2: Jeff Van Drew was first elected in New Jersey as a Democrat in 2018. He became MAGA and switched parties in 2020 and won election as a Republican. He even supported the unsuccessful effort to overturn the 2020 election. He lost by three points in 2026.

Bye, Felicia!

Toast #3: Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin since 2022. He was known for his belligerence and absurd and loud outbursts, leading observers to suggest that he was frequently intoxicated, and thus was given the epithet ‘Drunken’ Van Orden. In 2026 he lost by five points to Democrat Rebecca Cooke.

Bye, Felicia!

Toast #4: Then we have Virginia Foxx in North Carolina. This is a bit premature since she has not lost her seat yet but at the moment she is trailing the Democrat, but just barely. She is an extreme MAGA cult member, utterly obnoxious and I dearly hope she loses.

Bye, Felicia! (I hope)

It was particularly delightful to hear that Cindy Hyde-Smith lost her senate seat to Scott Colom in Mississippi. Colom had been nominated for a federal judgeship by Joe Biden in 2023 but Hyde-Smith used her prerogative as a senator from Colom’s state to block his nomination, stating at that time that the things he stood for “scared me to death” and that he was a “defender of transgender”. Then early on election night, when it seemed that she might win, she gloated about how she blocked Colom from becoming a judge and that the voters blocked him from becoming a senator.

Desi Lydic of The Daily Show had a funny bit about this race, after first talking about Jensen Huang’s fall from grace at Nvidia.

Bye, Felicia!

I have to give credit to conservative commentator Ann Coulter. Back in September, she predicted that Republicans were in deep trouble, saying “”Republicans are about to be completely wiped out in the Midterms. This is going to be a bloodbath like we haven’t seen before.”

Even she might be surprised at how right she was.