John Culberson, Republican from Houston, has taken an early but wide lead as "most connected Congressman" by posting a Qik video of his counter-ambush of a TMZ stringer and being the first person to twitter from the Oval Office. As he notes on the video, he tried to do a live Qik posting from the Oval Office of President Bush, but he was stopped by the Secret Service.

He'll widen his lead Thursday with "the 1st telephone/internet/video/text real time townhall meeting" (7:30pm CDT on his office's web site). He didn't broadcast video from inside a committee meeting on appropriations saying "don't think I'm going to try to take this into the committee room... I'm going to have to take this a step at a time."

He's taken some big steps already. Here's the video.