Actually, his number one choice would be to negotiate with ProgressKY.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is willing to
talk about a Grand Bargain with President Barack Obama, but he doesn't want Majority Leader Harry Reid to be in the room:
Mitch McConnell still hasn’t gotten over December’s traumatic fiscal cliff showdown.
The Senate minority leader has signaled privately that he has no interest in sitting in the same room as Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to discuss a possible “grand bargain” on budget and tax issues, Senate insiders tell POLITICO.
McConnell is fine with talking to Obama — just talking at this point — but he doesn’t want Reid there when it happens.
As childish as McConnell's demand sounds, something tells me that it has less to do with "December's traumatic fiscal cliff shutdown" than the fact that President Obama's budget starts a whole lot closer to where McConnell would like to end up than does Reid's. I mean, if you had McConnell's goals, wouldn't that be where you'd want to start negotiations?