It came last week, as he apparently torpedoed plans to appoint someone effective to head a new accounting oversight board.
Two weeks ago, the Iraqi government torpedoed plans to keep troops in Iraq when they said they would not provide immunity to American forces, a legal protection the Defense Department insists on for troops on the ground in a foreign country.
They also claim he torpedoed plans for a new stadium for which they'd secured real estate, $5 million a year from the Quebec government to cover interest on a planned $67 million bond and $8 million in annual tax relief.
The United Nations' top human rights body torpedoed plans this week for an international inquiry into human rights violations by all parties involved in Yemen's escalating war, even as an Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States carried out its deadliest attack on civilians in the country to date.
The growing use of the devices could also torpedo any plans to introduce "pay as you drive" insurance or road toll systems if the vehicle owner was able to block communications with monitoring systems.
What they are less likely to understand is that a rise in interest rates can easily torpedo their plans, while there is no possibility that a decline in rates will benefit them.
Last night, according to an account at Politico, the G.O.P. leader was reduced to standing in front of the House Republican Conference, the members of which had just torpedoed his "Plan B" tax plan, and reciting a prayer: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference".
The Judiciary Committee should torpedo the plan now, before it does serious harm to this important court.
Mr. Conway dismissed such talk as "the last, desperate act of the naysayers to torpedo the plan".
But it was this same Maliki who, egged on by Tehran, torpedoed US plans to maintain military bases in Iraq after 2011.
