Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell’s health situation is becoming increasingly difficult to understand, largely because his team continues to provide very little information about the 84-year-old senator’s condition.

It has now been roughly two and a half months since emergency responders were called to McConnell’s Washington home and he was taken to the hospital. His staff has maintained that he suffered a fall and subsequently developed pneumonia, while insisting that he did not have a heart attack or stroke.

That explanation has raised questions because audio from the emergency response reportedly indicated that first responders were dispatched for a patient in cardiac arrest.

McConnell has remained almost entirely out of public view since then. His office's most recent substantive update came Aug. 6, when he said he had been released from a rehabilitation facility and would continue an intensive physical-therapy program at home while staying involved with Senate business.

Three weeks later, however, his communications director, Stephanie Penn, reportedly declined to supply any further information about his condition or his plans for returning to the Senate. Her response was essentially that there was nothing to add to the previous statement.

“On the advice of my doctors, I’ll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period, and I’ll continue to engage with my staff and colleagues on important Senate business,” McConnell said in the August 6th statement, which did not include any signs of life.

So, why does Penn have "nothing to add" after McConnell has allegedly gone through intensive physical therapy at home for the past three weeks? You'd think there would be an update if he is, indeed, alive.

The lack of information is particularly striking because McConnell has not appeared in a video addressing the public, and his office has released only two photographs of him since his hospitalization. Both images have generated online speculation about whether they were genuine, although those suspicions have not been established as fact.

Meanwhile, people—including McConnell's chief of staff, Terry Carmack—have continued to come and go from his Washington townhouse. Carmack, like other members of McConnell's team, has declined to discuss the senator's condition.

One recent video provided another curious detail. Footage showing the briefly opened door of McConnell's home appeared to reveal boxes for two motorized lift recliners. Such chairs are designed to help people with mobility problems sit down and stand up and are also sometimes used during recovery from surgery.

None of that proves what is happening medically with McConnell. But after nearly three months without a public appearance and with his staff offering little more than carefully worded statements, the absence of clear information has inevitably continued to fuel questions about his health.

It appears that we have a vegetable in the Senate, and why not, after all, we have a potato in the White House. And yet, we're still paying for both men's salaries.