Congratulations, North Carolina, a mad man is governing your state. Gov. Pat McCrory appears to be angling to go head to head with the federal government over the Department of Justice’s warning letter Wednesday that HB2 is a violation of both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Caitlin MacNeal brings us Pat McCrory jumping the shark Wednesday evening:

McCrory said at an event with business leaders that the letter was "something we’ve never seen regarding Washington overreach in my lifetime," according to the Charlotte Observer.

"This is no longer just a N.C. issue. This impacts every state, every university and almost every employee in the United States of America," he added. "All those will have to comply with new definitions of requirements by the federal government regarding restrooms, locker rooms and shower facilities in both the private and public sector."

Now we know just how limited McCrory’s historical reference points are—as if that little clash of wills between the federal government and the states in the ’50s and ‘60s never occurred. Someone may want to let McCrory know how that turned out because we certainly can’t count on the state’s other Republican leaders to mitigate North Carolina’s impending loss of some $861 million in federal school funding.