Obama searches for post-vacation boost

Back from his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, President Obama would like to use this week to trumpet his economic prescriptions and better define his Republican opposition ahead of looming fiscal battles.

But White House officials instead will be forced to focus on a series of controversies that mushroomed during the president’s golf getaway, ranging from new revelations about the scope of National Security Agency surveillance programs to violence in Egypt and another delay of a major Obamacare provision.