Gregoire gone; announcement coming

Local media are in a tizzy over Christine Gregoire's mysterious absence:

Gov. Chris Gregoire is out of state, but her office won't say where she is....

Spokesman Pearse Edwards said that Gregoire will be making an announcement Tuesday morning, and that no further information would be released before then.

I have a hunch. Two, actually.

1. She's in D.C.

2. She's going to announce federal bailout money coming from soon-to-be-President Obama.

Update: Visiting troops in Iraq was my second guess, of course.