Last week’s splashy news about the United States Chamber of Commerce was that the Yes Men performance artists punked corporate-owned media with a National Press Club news conference announcing a 180-degree policy reversal by the Chamber on climate change.

But these meatspace hijinks were eclipsed by even bigger news for the Chamber of Commerce. Will this news from Mother Jones shrink their influence in the halls of Congress and regulatory agencies?

In an interview on Friday, Greg Marx of the Columbia Journalism Review asked Chamber spokesman Eric Wohlschlegel to comment on two competing newspaper accounts. Presented with a Wall Street Journal article that said the Chamber claims “300,000 members,” Wohlschlegel said, “That’s accurate.” Read an Associated Press article that said the Chamber claims “a membership of 3 million,” he responded, “That’s not exactly reported correctly.”

The second statement appears to be a reversal for Wohlschlegel, who, in September, told the New York Times: “We have over 3 million members.”

Since September, the United States Chamber of Commerce appears to have lost 2,700,000 members. While corporate-owned media and derivative parasite bloggers focus on the big companies leaving the Board of Directors (Nike) and the Chamber itself (Apple and Exelon and PG&E ) over climate change and carbon-cap, America is seeing something unprecedented: the disappearance of more than two and a half million businessmen & -women, all of them members of the US Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber might conceivably try to wiggle out of this by saying that it does “represent” these businesses even if they aren’t official members, or, since its spokesmen have used the phrase “three million members,” by trying, as it has, to redefine the meaning of “membership.”

Of course, the Obama Administration, determined to deploy its ACORN-strike-force of swine-flu vaccinators at your child’s pre-school and your parents’ assisted-living facility, has ignored this disappearance of Achievers and constructive contributors to society in less than six weeks. Because of his laser-focus on bringing Gitmo terrorists to your neighborhood, this huge void of Americans is off Obama’s radar. Since the Obamabots propose to throw Grandma under the bus to create a socialist National Health Service, no Czar will look for these missing businessmen and -women.

But where have they gone?

Where is Chamber’s Gulch? Where have these Achievers disappeared to? If more than two-and-a-half million food stamp recipients disappeared, wouldn’t the Obama Administration investigate? If almost three million Organizing for America volunteers stopped showing up for phone-bank house parties, wouldn’t the Obama Administration act? If these missing Americans were Democrats, wouldn’t Obama care?

This contempt for the safety and welfare of **likely Republican** voters, good members of the Chamber of Commerce every single one, is exactly how the Obama Administration would hide the forced disappearances that Glenn Beck warns good Americans about every night. Are these Chamber members in FEMA camps? Have they being relocated to new facilities?

And can it really be a coincidence that Glenn Beck’s ratings are down 300,000 viewers just this week? I think not.

Where are the Chamber Two-Point-Seven-Million? And why does no one care about them?