Beyond stupid

'Rep. Michele Bachmann visited a traffic signal plant in Iowa and called it an example of how President Obama's policies are "continuing to dig us deeper into the hole toward another recession," the Los Angeles Times reports'.
'However, the plant "thrives on the kind of road and bridge spending that Obama has promoted as a key remedy to the nation's economic slowdown" with as much as 80% of the plant's revenue coming from government'.
From : http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/09/20/bachmann_pitches_message_at_wrong_factory.html
This should have resulted in someone or ones being fired. So the real question is not how stupid this sounds but WHY wasn't someone or ones fired?