Battle themes emerge for deficit reduction fight in Congress

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(CNN) -- There is a war going on in Washington, and the politicians waging it can't even agree on what kind it is.

To Republicans, President Barack Obama and Democrats are waging class warfare by proposing tax reforms that would make wealthy Americans pay more than they do now.
"When you pick one area of the economy and you say, 'We're going to tax those people because most people are not those people,' that's class warfare," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
Democrats refer to political warfare, with Republicans blocking the Obama administration's initiatives to better their chances of defeating him in next year's election.

"I don't think people like that style of politics and that's the reality ... we'll be facing in November 2012," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said on the same program.
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