Late word from Greg Sargent that the Senate is counting votes on the trigger proposal in addition to the opt out, to find out which one gets the most votes. I’d be more surprised if they weren’t – information is power at this stage.

LATER LATER WORD: WH aide Dan Pfeiffer says the report about Obama pushing for the trigger is “false”, but offers little to back that up.

So I may not have a ton of time this weekend, we’ll see how it goes. At any rate:

• Today was the big day for Iran to finalize the plan to ship its stockpile of enriched uranium to a second country for processing. As it turns out, they missed the deadline and then asked for an extension until next week to respond. So we’re in a holding pattern. Iran also denied the report that Iran met Israel and had bilateral discussions for the first time since 1979.

• The FCC yesterday approved its “notice of proposed rulemaking” on net neutrality, making a tangible step forward to preserve a free and open Internet. It’s not over yet, but this is an unequivocal, major progressive victory from the Adminstration.

• Amazing numbers from this CNN poll, showing that the Republican Party has its lowest approval rating since the Clinton impeachment. That’s lower than right before the elections of 2006 and 2008, when they got thumped. This is a bit of a reality check.

• Despite worries from some progressives about the weakening of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, it’s notable that Elizabeth Warren, head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, enthusiastically endorsed it today. After all, she INVENTED the idea, so if she still thinks it has merit, that’s positive.

• An intriguing bill, the Solar Technology Roadmap Act, passed the House yesterday – looks like a good measure to increase investment in solar.

• Could Dawn Johnsen actually make it through the Senate and to the Office of Legal Counsel, now that Arlen Specter’s opposition is melting away? That Specter is still undecided on this is ridiculous.

• More noise from the Fed asking for increased regulatory oversight of the banking industry. They could start with themselves, perhaps?

• The Chamber of Commerce plays the victim, claims to be under attack, asks people for money. Because they blew through $34 million in lobbying so far this year.

• It’s amusing to see Greenberg Quinlan Rosner putting out a poll showing public support in Honduras for deposed President Mel Zelaya, when their pal Lanny Davis is whoring for the coup plotters now in control of the government.

• Another stand-up routine from Alan Grayson, although Dick Cheney is such an easy target it’s almost not fair. That is the right response to Cheney’s silliness, however.

• You think the teabaggers are bad? In Britain, the head of the far-right BNP (British National Party) says London has been ethnically cleansed on national TV.